Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tell a guy from Princeton you're working for your congressional representative and you get, "Oh, cool. That must be so much fun." Introduce yourself as a White House intern, and you'll provoke an involuntary "Wow!" from your conversation partner. Even well-known non-profits and interest groups, like Common Cause or the AFL-CIO, will impress people. But say you're from the Center for Democracy and Technology (an Internet civil-liberties group) or some other small lobbying organization, and you might as well have introduced yourself at a Head of the Charles party as somebody's friend...
...that were planned years ago and will make the neighborhood a better place. Mayor Whelan insists that other roadway routes would have displaced even more homeowners. He's sorry about Bryant Drive, but if Atlantic City doesn't take this next step--"Not just another casino, but an 'Oh, wow!' destination resort"--it will die. He says Circus Circus and Boyd Gaming may build next to Mirage's planned Le Jardin, which will resemble a gigantic terrarium...
...really scared. There were all these other actors who were like, 'I'm with SAG [Screen Actors Guild]' and they had these portfolios. I didn't even know what SAG was, and my pictures were these little things my friend took. I was like, 'Wow, I'm dead,'" Ashong remembers. "The only productions I'd ever been in were Black CAST shows at school...
Stansky: I moved deliberately. I tried to pick times in the six-month period when people were thinking, Wow, everything is O.K. and I can get 6.7% or better on a yield, and I sold aggressively when the market gave me the chance to. I didn't want just to sell the bonds because they weren't mine. My money is in the fund. I want the best price for my sales and the best price for my purchases. Frankly, I think I did a pretty good job on it. I don't think I could have done a much...
...replace this old-fashioned high-mindedness. And eventually one comes to miss the moral earnestness of an H.G. Wells and the substance it imparted to his fantasies. Evil (and, for that matter, good) should be something more than a spectacular design conceit. After the nice and not-nice E.T.s wow us with their first striking appearances, they have an obligation to grip us in slightly more profound ways. Although the cast, led by Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich, tries hard, they don't make a deep impression. "Like everyone and everything else in this movie, Willis runs hard and fast...