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Word: wow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learned how to direct as he went along. "In a comedy," he realized, "you need pace instead of plot. It's so hard to get all the elements working. I have tremendous respect for any filmmaker. To finish it, then to have it shown, then to have it accepted--WOW...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Living on Spongecake | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

Because Miller dared to make a move without a single graduate of Saturday Night Live - or, for that matter, a single liberal impulse - his film has been consigned to the grind houses, where audiences are responding as Miller wants them to ("Eek!" "Ugh!" "Wow!"). From there Mad Max will find its way to the film schools and revival houses, where its tough-gutted intelligence may be appreciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Poetic Car-Nage | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...have searched my vocabulary for one word that best describes the photograph of Mount St. Helens. I considered gorgeous, fantastic, astounding, awesome, but decided on wow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1980 | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...Wow," said Featherless. "I see what you mean. We'd have the age issue then, of course. A lot of people would feel that 171 was too old to hold the reins of office." But I could see that Featherless was still worried. Then he brightened. "Nah," he said. "Never happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Imaginary Musings | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

bright, luminous point of consciousness, radiating light, warmth and knowledge." "Wow!" as a young New York woman wrote in the logbook after a $15, one-hour soak at Manhattan's Tranquility Tanks. "Orgasmic!" said another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Nirvana in a Dank, Dark Tank | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

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