Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COLE PORTER is the New Haven grad who wrote "Bulldog, bulldog, bow-wow-wow, Eli Yale." Deciding to turn to better things, he came to Harvard, but he left Law School, deciding to turn to still better things. The best of those better things is Kiss Me, Kate, a delightful major musical based on delightful minor Shakespeare, and it's surprising, for a farce, how major a portion of the score was composed in the minor mode...
...morning my daughter said: 'It's not like you're my mommy any more.' Wow! I said I would wake her up when I came home and we would have an evening chat." Horner has since made a regular practice...
...everything you want. Rub up the ball. Move the fielders around. Throw me hard stuff, soft stuff. Try anything. I'm still going to hit that ball.' God, do I love to hit that little round sumbitch out of the park and make 'em say 'Wow!' " Opposing pitchers like Baltimore's perennial 20-game winner, Jim Palmer, believe him. "When I'm pitching against Jackson," says Palmer, "I'm happy just keeping the ball inside the park...
...spacey Montoya ("Professor Howaya") addresses the witness chair between snoozes to ask the dog seated there (a real dog, looking bored) if he has any advice for young puppies. Doug Altabef's performance as student Brodstein/Professor Badbore would please anybody. So would a line like, "Brandeis and Frankfurter--oh, WOW...
...Adam was on about his second bite of Caesar salad. Everything was quiet and peaceful, and he was looking at me with that "Wow!" expression of his. Then, all of a sudden, this really crazy look comes over his face. He jumped up spilling salad all over the place. Then he just ran off into the trees. In a few minutes he came running back with a bunch of fig leaves in his hand. Then he starts yelling at me, "For God's sake, Eve, get your butt off the ground and put on these fig leaves...