Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...West -- and many ordinary Palestinians -- fell in love with her at Madrid, but the West Bank political establishment did not. Her portable phone , buzzes with requests for speeches, appearances, interviews, meetings -- from foreigners. "Wow," her admirers from abroad think. "She's female, educated, talks like us: our kind of Arab. She's so rational, so pragmatic." But the camera-clicking adulation that follows her every move abroad produces a distinctly muted reaction at home...
...refusing to state firmly which of the two women dunit (notwithstanding gay activists' confident naming of one of them, in a publicity campaign aimed at undermining the movie). This reflects its fundamental flaw of arrogance, a smug faith in the ability of its own speed, smartness and luxe to wow the yokels. It is its attitude, not its morality, that ultimately undoes Basic Instinct...
Aronberg predicts Stewart's intelligent brand of humor should wow a Harvard audience...
...still have points % left over for Homer Simpson. Wayne's vocabulary is abundant with synonyms for the verb vomit: hurl, spew, honk. With his Chinese girlfriend he can chat in Cantonese. And only Wayne noticed that two actors played Darrin on Bewitched: "Dick Sargent, Dick York. Sargent York. Wow...
Buchanan served as a speechwriter in the Nixon White House, as an aide in the Ford transition and as Reagan's director of communications. Wow. Several Harvard professors, including Professors Roger B. Porter, Martin S. Feldstein '61 and Robert D. Putnam have served in much higher posts, and I wouldn't want to see any of them as president, either. (Well, maybe Marty...