Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...language long cut off from creative input. Both speak despairingly of (literally) endless struggles to break the same habits, particularly a fierce predilection for eating bananas; Gullette eats two at the performance's start, in a display that moved one audience member to bubble enthusiastically to him at intermission, "Wow, that was the most obscene thing I've ever seen in my life!" The sense of paralysis is properly stifling, but the show moves nowhere with commendable snippiness; both play with and director resist the urge to browbeat the audience, and things wind up in just over an hour...
...makes this punked-out environment intriguing is that it contains many small reminders of the old Paris. Jules first meets Alba when he watches her shoplift records in a discomat. She is dressed completely in plastic and carries a portfolio of naked self-portraits. She says things like "Oh wow, man, COOL" and sips Coke from a straw because it's chic. Yet later in the film, she keeps our hero from fainting (thus saving his life) by spinning fairy tales of princesses in enchanted gardens. At a place known only as "The Castle," she brings him fruit and milk...
...From Eden, despite its basically technical structure, if fun to read, even if you don't buy the theory. There is a lot of stuff to chew on and go "Oh Wow" about. The brain likes to read about itself and some of its exploits. How do you explain barbarism, empire-builders, the practice of burying the dead, the birth of religion? How did Magic Men get away with it? A lot of stuff you just assumed " was always there" has its evolution discussed here...
...friend. She describes Southwestern as "a word-of-mouth network within the country," adding that recruiters "seduce you into selling." After attending the sales school in late May. Bingham says her team will be assigned to an area in the West. Every Sunday they will meet for a "pow-wow" to compare experiences and successes Describing Southwestern as a "capitalistic cult." Bingham says she will sell the books "partly for the money and partly for the adventure...
More predictably, the right-leaning Wall Street Journal has lambasted Schell as "destructive of serious thought about how to prevent war and control the spread of nuclear arms." Especially ludicrous, the paper says, is his call for "nothing less than to reinvent politics." Cracks the Journal: "Like, wow...