Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mouth that squirts jets of air and water. This thing, under the guidance of gastroenterologist Dr. Edgar Achkar, is about to explore the lower third of my colon for polyps. After enemas are administered, I am in position. A congenial nurse named Debby clutches my hand reassuringly. Achkar wonders if I would like to see the proceedings on a video monitor. Suddenly a world I never imagined existed lights the screen. I am awestruck, feeling the amazement that a spelunker might experience upon discovering a similarly rose-colored passage deep in the earth. But my wonder is quickly tempered...
Wall Street may also be starting to wonder. After a long run as one of the brightest stars in the Dow firmament, the company's stock has slipped 10% in the past month. The good news is that Disney remains the world's most beloved entertainment brand name--a kind of profitability triple threat that uses movies, theme parks and merchandise to turn every hit into a volcano of revenues. But some analysts are worried that its fabled pre-eminence in the animation arena has eroded since its Lion King days and that its theme parks face newly ferocious rivals...
...wonder that Anne Heche is slightly fidgety, her hands nervously shuttling one Camel cigarette after another to her lips? The 29-year-old actress had been on Hollywood's fast track, landing roles opposite stars like Johnny Depp and Al Pacino (Donnie Brasco), Tommy Lee Jones (Volcano) and Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog). Then last year--just as she was tapped to share onscreen kisses with Ford in Disney's romantic comedy Six Days, Seven Nights--she met and fell in love with Ellen DeGeneres, TV's first openly gay leading actress. Overnight, the couple, showing...
...predictable. And you begin to wonder, as you so often do at the movies these days, why did they bother? And more to the point, why should we bother...
...already happening, albeit in the crudest of ways. Boot up a computer program called the Axe, for instance, and you can jam along with Stevie Wonder's hit song Superstition. "Anyone can play music and have a really satisfying experience," says Eran Egozy, co-founder of Harmonix Music Systems Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., software company specializing in "jamware." By moving your mouse around on a compass-like grid, you can play faster, slower, higher and lower notes--but never out of tune. "You're always in time, in key and playing the right notes," says Egozy, who admits that, mellifluous...