Word: wanly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...enough virtual Greek columns to stage a hundred Obama rallies; 3-D graphics sprouted out of studio floors and hung in the air; and CNN unveiled the most amazing and goofy innovation, 3-D projections of studio guests speaking to the network's anchors like Princess Leia asking Obi-Wan for help in Star Wars. Anderson Cooper ended an interview with singer and Obama supporter Will.i.am, "Appreciate you being with us tonight by hologram." It was as if CNN had been bought by Lucasfilm...
...Previous work that Antoinette, [Kellogg School of Management Professor] Wan Wong, and myself had done had highlighted the fact that endowments were much savvier private equity investors than other institutions,” Lerner said in an interview...
...with all the servants, but it hadn’t seemed to help.Felicity collapsed wearily on the edge of an ornamental pool. The fountain in the middle sputtered weakly. Looking at that laughably small column of water, Felicity wanted to sob. Her beauty was fading; she looked pale and wan, and even the fumbling attentions of the under-gardener in the bougainvillea had failed to give her any pleasure.Why couldn’t she forget him? Felicity asked herself. She had fled to Italy. She had replicated his caresses with dozens of eager men. She had even ordered a small...
...serial killer. The first movie in which the stars share prime screen time could have been an event--if it had happened 30 or 20 or even 10 years ago. Not now, not here. Instead of a World Series of acting, we get a wan Old Timers' Game...
...tired of wan, 16-year-old East European models that I woke up super early to go to the Victoria's Secret show. Which, it turned out, was actually just a PowerPoint presentation by its CEO. It was like waking up for Christmas and discovering it's CEO PowerPoint Day. I did, however, learn that the main thing Victoria's Secret looks for in a new "supermodel" is "confidence," followed by "the ability to give back to the community." I'm guessing No. 3 is a tie between a huge heart and a working knowledge of constitutional...