Word: wow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somebody did make Fatal Attraction. And this fall, what if became wow! Striking moviegoers with the startling power of a madwoman in your bathroom, Paramount's lurid romantic thriller is the zeitgeist hit of the decade. It has been box-office champ for each of its first seven weeks in release, and shows little sign of slackening. Last week it reached the $80 million mark, to rank as the year's second highest grossing film. It's the movie with something for almost everybody. Says Michael Douglas, who plays Dan: "People leave saying 'I laughed, I got turned...
...lions. Street musicians perform the Temptation's "My Girl," including Motown-style choreography, while the camera cuts between scenes of various couples trysting. Sammy's mistress, Anna (Wendy Gazelle), a New York photographer, has a "w" tattooed on each buttock "so that when I bend over, it spells `wow...
...Wow," I said, "I have to hand it to you. I'm feeling better already about our nation's long-term prospects. It would be a shame if it was laid waste in a nuclear war, though...
...REMEMBER, it is important to loudly feign intellectual ecstasy at moments when the rest of the class is patiently hearing the teacher out. For instance, one should cry 'oh, wow' or 'hey, how neat' at least every 10 minutes...
B.S.O.H member. (loudly interrupting) "WOW! That's really cool! But, hey, doesn't that somehow relate to what the professor said in lecture the other day...let me just check my extensive notes here (shuffles a tome of blank notebook paper cleverly disguised with a page of notes on top and bottom)...ah, yes, here it is...what this reminds me of is just how neat all the information seems to fit together! This is really a very cohesive course...