Word: woo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McLuhanite world around us. His is an America, in 1984, in which reflexes, values, even feelings have been programmed by that All- Seeing Deity known as the Tube. Remaking us in its own image (every seven days), TV consumes us much more than we do it. Lovers woo one another on screens, interface with friends, cite TV sets as corespondents in divorce trials. And the children who have grown up goggle-eyed around the electric altar cannot believe that anything is real unless it comes with a laugh track: they organize their emotions around commercial breaks and hope to heal...
...romantic comedy lies at the heart of the production. As the play opens, timid Robin Oakapple (Michael Short) is attempting to woo the lovely Rose Maybud (Karen Thompson). Unable to overcome his shyness and reveal his true feelings, Robin instead convinces Richard Dauntless (Colum Amory), his foster brother, to talk to Rose for him. When the seafaring Richard sees the charming Rose, he breaks his promise to Robin and becomes engaged to Rose himself...
...commited Reaganite who often confers with Coretta Scott King and espouses Lincolnian and Jeffersonian principles, Kemp could woo Black voters back to the Republican Party and thus deprive the Democrats of their most reliable constituency...
...immigrants from Taiwan and South Korea, all driven by an admirable work ethic. There are also fragmented Filipino families headed by women, and Hmong tribesmen who know little of technology and are dependent upon public assistance. "There are people without hope in the Asian-American community," says Michael Woo, the lone Asian member of the Los Angeles city council. It is a strange notion to those whose only awareness of Asian Americans is of whiz-kid scholars and hardworking greengrocers...
...Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton are the D.L.C.'s stars. Dizzy with turning points, raw with fresh starts, wide-awake with new days dawning, their new Democratic Party has blotted out the L word with the M word: mainstream. That is D.L.C. code for letting the constituency it wants to woo know that the constituency it used to depend on -- feminists, gays, blacks and Big Labor -- has lost influence...