Word: wisps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably wrangle with the ribbon far less than I'd sweat blood over a smug squat printer? But, no, it isn't just efficiency, isn't it the pre-modern satisfaction of unfamiliar physical immediacy--actually crunching out the letters, tack tack tack, not beholden to mysterious will o' wisp electrons? Why are we so far removed? Do you know how all the black boxes in your world operate...
...J.F.K., imagine how hard it is to be the daughter of the valiant widow. Caroline had some of the remote, mysterious quality of her mother. When I met her for the first time, I expected to hear that whisper, see a will-o'-the-wisp, but found instead someone with a firm voice, incredibly self-possessed and with a day-to-dayness about her. You could picture that she could make her way in Manhattan, hailing taxis and going to the movies and taking her children for ice cream in Central Park without causing a fuss...
...Originality aside, Star Wars, JAWS, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and dozens of other films simply wouldn't be the same without Williams' in the background, heightening the drama of every scene. Compare that to the occasional wisp of flute music reminiscent of "My Heart Will Go On" in Titanic, heralding the blast of the top-40 hit as the credits roll...
Originality aside, Star Wars, JAWS, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and dozens of other films simply wouldn't be the same without Williams' in the background, heightening the drama of every scene. Compare that to the occasional wisp of flute music reminiscent of "My Heart Will Go On" in Titanic, heralding the blast of the top-40 hit as the credits roll...
...stubborn wisp of a man lumbered through the two-day proceedings, berated by the judge and derided by the prosecution for courtroom gaffes and blunders. Kevorkian discovered, for example, that he couldn't call the witnesses he wanted. The judge declared that the family of Thomas Youk, to whom Kevorkian had given a lethal injection, would raise the consent of the patient as a defense--one that was irrelevant in a murder case. Four times in the past, Kevorkian's lawyer Geoffrey Fieger (whom Kevorkian did not want representing him in this case) had beaten assisted-suicide charges by arguing...