Word: woos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...described in ways that make him sound like a merchant of death. His company, Omnitech Robotics, makes equipment for tanks and other military vehicles. It has been used successfully on Bosnian battlefields, and lately Parish has been prowling arms bazaars in Thailand and the United Arab Emirates to woo foreign customers...
...films, video games, Dungeons & Dragons, Japanese robot cartoons. The resonances evoke the increasingly trendy ideas of a sort of "geek chic," based on the artifacts of mainstream male teenage culture of the 1980s and early 90s, overlaid with a technophilic edge: it's a world born out of John Woo movies, computer hacking and the fandom of comic books themselves. It's a universe in which attitude is everything...
...embassy closely guarded the secret, lest premature publicity embarrass the Chinese and cause them to change their minds. Coach reservations, later upgraded to first class, on the Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit were made in the name of Mr. and Mrs. Woo Chan...
...soon, it was time to go. At the airport, Wei met briefly with Sasser, who asked the dissident if he was leaving voluntarily and explained that he might never be able to come back. Just before the 10:30 a.m. departure time, Woo Chan Lee, a U.S. embassy employee, strode to the gate not with his wife but with a tired-looking man in a down jacket. Only then was the Northwest crew told about the important passenger they would have on board the flight...
Still, adventurous programming is being encouraged. Along with some live-music shows and band biographies, the channel is considering a drama about long-distance relationships called Distance; a variety show with Beck as host; a parody of Kung Fu movies called Kung Pow; a pilot by John Woo; and Band of Spies, a comedy about CIA agents who go deep cover in a rock band. Hey, it could work, in a weird James-Bond-meets-anthrax, teenage-boy kind of way. Though more videos might be a safer way to shut Bart up for a while...