Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wow-Hasidic-Jews! genre is now 0 for 2. Renee Zwelleger plays Sonya, a Hasidic Jew who can't handle her religion's strict more. Constantly red-faced or stuck in a deliriously cheesy monologue, Zwelleger tears into the role trying to make the film somewhat watchable. All her effort is ultimately futile: A Price Above Rubies is not only an example of dull storytelling but also of offensive and exasperating, preachy filmmaking. Sonya wants to discover true, "burning" passion. The filmmakers make it obvious that true love cannot be found in her community--a tenuous, seemingly-offensive position. When...
...effort. David Egan '00 is a sincere and entertainingly histrionic Pericles; Erin Billings '00, doubling in the major women's roles as Pericles's wife Thaisa and his daughter Marina, splits her personality neatly between a shudderingly silly and endearing pre-adolescent 1980s chick in the former role ("Wow! She's, like, the cutest thing since Safari-Style Barbie!" confides the love-struck Pericles to the audience) and the more serious one of the frightened virgin Marina in the latter...
Have you ever hated your name? Apparently some people have. A recently published study by researchers at the University of California in San Diego has suggested that people with "cooler" initials--such as ACE, JOY, WOW or GOD--might actually live longer than people with more negative ones, like BUM, UGH, ILL, PIG, ASS or DED. The study looked at five million California death certificates and singled out 3,487 men (whose names are less likely to change over a lifetime). The study included 2,287 men with decidedly negative monograms and 1,200 WINners and VIP-types...
...quoted in a story by The Associated Press, there may be "some psychological factor that can exert its impact cumulatively over the years...At every stage it's a little tiny depressant to be called PIG, or a little tiny boost to your esteem to be called ACE or WOW...
...facing sides of Holworthy and Canaday, a unique connection was established. "I wasn't even spying on them, just one day, I was sort of looking out, and [someone in the Canaday fourth floor] caught my eye, looking back. I was like, 'Wow, it's pretty weird that we live right across from each other," explains Liz L. Sarles '01. The two watchers discovered, through subsequent and conversations at Annenberg, that they knew each other through mutual friends. "We didn't know each other that well, but it was just sort of something we'd talk about." agrees...