Word: winked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...committed health-food person to eat it," says General Mills CEO Steve Sanger. Yoplait had to convince Americans that they would love its signature creamy texture, but it also had to keep its marketing from diving too deeply into the froufrou. Mills positioned Yoplait's brand, with a wink and a nod, around French culture and used marketing techniques equally foreign to the early '80s such as hot-air balloons and vans parked at marathons for tastings. "'Real Americans,' guys like Jack Klugman and Tommy Lasorda, would eat this stuff with a skeptical look and then burst into French extolling...
...were paying attention during the unceremonious finale, and even fewer will miss the course that has left captive students begging for mercy—or a bit if intellectual stimulation—all semester long. Attendance often dropped to laughable levels as some TFs resigned themselves to making wink-wink agreements, telling their students that they did not need to attend the lectures, while others encouraged “multitasking.” With this semester finally in the rearview mirror, it’s time for the government department to go back to the drawing board and think about...
...culture where some of our most esteemed scholars and writers fall prey to the sloppy writing, editing, and fact-checking that leads to such mistakes, and where the University seems to tolerate rather than censure such behavior with a wink and a nod, how can we expect more from our students...
...Back then, Bettie Page was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Titter, Whisper and Wink, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day, maybe any day. (She was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.) As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged...
...gentlemen are somewhere in between, somewhere beyond politics, and necessarily, informed debate. For them, throwing Gatsby parties is simply what socialites do, just a bit of fun. There is no significance beyond this, no ironic wink, no nostalgic paean. The party must not be interrupted by the inconvenience of thought. To ask of ideas is thus to presume reflection where none existed. (A Fly Club member declined to comment, citing club policy not to talk to the press...