Word: whamming
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Tickets were lotteried when JFK School guest-speaker George Michael offered a rousing lecture entitled “Wham! Onomatopoeia and Song...
...donning a woolly cap did he draw a parallel to his best-known character, the anti-corporate vagrant Hutch Owen. Using an overhead projector, an assistant switched transparencies made from Hart's book, "The Collected Hutch Owen," while Hart read the dialogue and even such onomatopoeia as "blip" and "wham." Afterwards he took questions from the moderator and audience...
...retirement, only to find that the rules have changed. The film includes some porno footage that, as aspiring actresses used to say, is absolutely essential to the plot. And it is, for it shows that the subtleties our veteran director insists on have no place in the wham-bam-merci-madame demimonde of porn video...
...Pushing the Right Buttons PINNED. Once they made a statement. They were quirky windows into our souls, expressions of our kicky individuality. Michael J. Fox sported one in Back to the Future; Wham had a few dozen pinned to their blousy satin suits. They even made it big in China during the Cultural Revolution when Mao-adorned pendants were the symbol of revolutionary coolness. Then the multinationals, elementary schools and junior athletic leagues took over and un-cooled the button. They became big and plastic, and their messages lost out to corporate hype and photo badges of 8-year...
...meet at the five-and-dime store where Rose works, and the play begins after she has just invited Cliff up to her apartment. While Cliff thinks her intention is for a little “wham bam thank you ma’am” action, her motive is a little less clear. The play that unfolds is a record of the unusual relationship that forms between these two very lonely people...