Word: woo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political sensibilities this June, inaugurating his campaign with a suit against the State of Florida over its ballot-qualifying fees--at $10,020, the highest in the nation. Green, 39, has also emphasized his youth, in comparison with 66-year-old incumbent Bill Young, in an attempt to woo the district's new population of young professionals. He sees himself as an F.D.R. Democrat, unapologetic in his support of government programs...
...musical interludes through the evening included a mini-opera titled "Lament Del Cockroach" in which Nobel laureates starred as insects and tried to woo two mezzo sopranos acting as cockroaches...
...Friday night, and Alexis Rosen was about to leave work when one of his computers sent him a piece of E-mail. If this had been the movies, the message would have been presaged by something dramatic--the woo-ga sound of a submarine diving into combat, say. But of course it wasn't. This was a line of dry text automatically generated by one of the machines that guard his network. It said simply, "The mail servers are down." The alert told Rosen that his 6,000 clients were now unable to receive E-mail...
...this, the dawn of the v-chip age, it is hard to understand how John Woo has found a place on prime-time network television. As you may already know if you are on the cutting edge of moviegoing, Woo is one of the pre-eminent auteurs of Hong Kong filmmaking, a master of somber, lyrical and unrelentingly bloody action films. He had his first U.S. hit earlier this year with Broken Arrow, and breaks new American ground this month with his first-ever made-for-TV movie, John Woo's Once a Thief (Fox, Sept...
Clearly a project for which Jane Seymour was not approached, Once a Thief is nevertheless a perfectly viable movie-of-the-week, one in which Woo has tempered his darker instincts. Present are his trademark slow-motion shots, ingeniously choreographed fisticuffs and gunplay--yet nary a visible drop of blood is shed...