Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FLASH! Elvis is back! Oh wow! Yank those beers out of the mother icebox. The man, the MAN, the whole cause of everything. He's on the tube, can you believe, singing in a torrent of sweat in a black leather suit--no, wait, it's a high-roll collar dealie, and can you dig his pants? Heartbreak Hotel? Raunchy as ever? Hound Dog? It's too good to be true! That quiver that makes girls moan from their stomachs made me shriek at the top of my lungs: "Elvis, Elvis, you son of a bitch, you are the KING...
...disappointed in you is, of course, an understatement. While I sat here singing all those other alma maters, learned in infancy, you sat there grinning and whooping it up without even trying. Wow, was I mad! Couldn't you have stayed off whatever you were on until after the program? Yale really showed you up, but I don't suppose you care in the least...
...mean to take anything away from that Harvard team. They got a really good guy in that little Gatto fellow. He's a real sparkplug. And that defense: wow, from what I've seen in the films they know how to play football. But let's get back...
...success Italian youths had enjoyed in upstaging the Venice Biennale, threatened to disrupt the Documenta. Shipments from France were delayed by strikes, and artists labored through the night before the opening, installing exhibits. Still, the show began on time for a three-month run-and it was like wow...
...more recent successes such as Paper Cup and Wichita Lineman-reveal Webb's gift for strong, varied rhythms, inventive structures, and rich, sometimes surprising harmonies. Threaded through them all are simple melodies that occasionally evoke country music or other sounds of his Southwest background (Wichita Lineman features the wow-wow-wow sound of the prairie wind whipping through electrical wires). "A pop song should have a lyric that's basically a poem," Webb says. "If people get the feeling, then the lyric is successful-whether they know what I'm talking about or not." Typical...