Word: woo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., loudspeakers mounted atop cars and trucks blare out the names of candidates. Men armed with bullhorns bellow party names on street corners, while the shouts of supporters assault the ears of those passing by. Japanese politicians have little choice but to woo votes with decibels: not only are television and newspaper ads forbiddingly expensive, but candidates are prohibited from making their pitches door to door. So deafening was the din during last June's campaign for seats to the Upper House that a Yokohama group called the Association of Sufferers from Noise urged citizens...
...Gundel, the city's romantic garden restaurant, costs around $30 a person. Westerners get a kick out of tours of the Puszta region, where they feel at home on the range watching Hungarian cowboys rounding up cattle. With $20 billion owed Western banks, Yugoslavia is desperate to woo foreign vacationers. The government is even spending $6 million to import Western newspapers for tourists' consumption during the summer. Westerners can get a 10% discount on all goods and services. When it comes to such amenities as air conditioning, ice cubes and even a cup of coffee, Yugoslavia still...
...found it close to home. By the late '70s, Bowie had worked with synthesizers and what he calls the "Euro-techo sound": lots of strange, synthesized instruments serenading one another like computer banks pitching woo. On Let's Dance, he wedded those sounds to old rhythm and blues undercurrents and an idle jazz strain?as he says, "everything from Little Richard to John Coltrane." The result, modeled on "music that used to lift me up and make me feel really happy," was less a return to basics than a reappraisal of them...
...birds of this year in the nests of the last"; "Patience, and shuffle the cards." His English contemporary was of two minds about folklore, as he was about everything. Hamlet disdains it: "The proverb is something musty." Yet the plays overflow with musty somethings: "Men are April when they woo; December when they wed"; "A little pot and soon hot"; "The fashion wears out more apparel than the man"; and, more to the point, "Patch grief with proverbs...
Nonetheless, the SDP is still a young party and the middle ground is always a good place to occupy if everybody else is fleeing it like the plague. By the next election in 1987, the SDP will either have to woo enough moderate Laborites to become the opposition party...