Search Details

Word: wap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...beginning of every stop along the rover's route (there were no telecasts while the car was moving because its high-gain antenna could not be kept aligned with the earth), Fendell's "shooting script" called for what was dubbed a "WAP," or wide-angle panorama. The camera slowly swept in a full circle around the horizon, enabling the scientists in Mission Control's science support room to take a series of overlapping Polaroid snapshots off their TV monitor, quickly study them for any oddity and then request Fendell to zoom in on it. Such a closeup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: NASA's Captain Video | 8/9/1971 | See Source »

...architect of Dionne's success is Songwriter Burt Bacharach Jr., 39, son of the syndicated columnist, who discovered her six years ago when she was swinging doo-wap-dee-doo backgrounds in a recording studio. When she first appeared for an audition in pigtails, dungarees and sneakers, Bacharach was immediately impressed: "She has a tremendous strong side and a delicacy when singing softly-like miniature ships in bottles." Musically, she was "no play-safe girl. What emotion I could get away with!" And what complexity, compared with the usual run of pop songs. In Bacharach's Anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Spreading the Faith | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

Twitchedy, twatchedy, flippedy, flappedy, flong your own thong tong, snickety poo. Griff, graff, gobble, gobble, ghrrr, gar, gorrr, goo goo goo. Wap, wap, flaptrap, wonk wonk weee. Zap, zap, backtrack, zonk zonk zeee. Wish I may, wish I might have the wish I wish tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memento Morey | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. Evicted from St. Botolphs and its rooted way of life by time, circumstance and inclination, the younger generation of Wap-shots find the 20th century closing in and the fit uncomfortable, whether in suburbia or in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a missile base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 10, 1964 | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...vestiges of the revue, notably the "Going-Home Train" scene and the sketch about the Air Force's boy general. The plot concerns a G.I. in Japan (Dan Dailey) and his legally separated wife (Betty Grable.) The wife is with a female entertainment outfit called the WOOF's or WAP's or something equally non-existant. After a great deal of childness, the movie ends in a clinch while a gushing fountain gushes and revolving stages revolve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/21/1951 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |