Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Double Life. But he was troubled. "Musically speaking," he recalls, "I was leading a double life. At home, I was a different man. I loved the classics, but I knew I could wow any audience with De Falla's Fire Dance. I was too little involved in the job I had to do, which was to develop my talent." Then in 1926 he met Aniela ("Nela"), the handsome, honey-blonde daughter of Polish Conductor Emil Mlynarski. She was 17, he was 39. When he finally got around to proposing to her beneath the Chopin monument in Warsaw, Nela was doubtful...
...rugged drinking problem... Old men can't take that. Young men drink. Yes." Sometimes he talks rather wildly about looking forward to growing old, "Old men can really cut loose. You should see those Old White Russian Aristocrats at any Salvadore Dali opening. Can they dress. WOW!" But it doesn't work. Tom Wolfe is the prisoner of an historical minute, which, if he didn't invent it, owes much of its definition and publication to his good offices. But soon there will great big cosmic TICK-TOCK and Wolfe will be on the wrong end or the freeway...
...boom bah, yippeda, yippeda, yipe. Yo ho heave ho, bibbedy, boppety, boo poop be doo dah. Zippy poo bang wow joo gee pow, pow pow, pow. Yap, sap, flap, trap, blap, bongada bongada...
...Wow...
Princess Margaret, however, evaded her admirers for sightseeing jaunts in a red Cadillac convertible and aboard a yacht in San Francisco Bay. Giggled one British official's wife, watching newsmen trying to keep pace: "It's all a bit of a wow...