Word: wowing
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...Graaf generator. The generator was splitting hydrogen molecules to produce protons, which were accelerated down the pipes and into the box. There the stream smashed into the apple skin, turning the helium in its path an eerie purple. The apple skin was browning and curling up under the bombardment. "Wow," Horowitz said. "This baby is taking quite a beating...
...Conn., then you might have to worry about a job," Bok continues, "but here at Harvard you have nothing to worry about." A million garment workers, grape pickers, bank tellers, and Yale alumnus Charles U. Daly, vice-president for Government and Community Affairs, are laid off. "Bulldog, bulldog, bow, wow, wow," Bok chuckles...
...echoing a couple of their most famous scenes. Like Truffaut, he borrows hoary cinematic devices-the wipe, the iris and the optical montage-only to mix them with currently fashionable gimmicks like the split screen. De Palma's axiom is that in popular culture, today's wow is tomorrow's cliche and the next day's nostalgic treasure. The corollary is that our opinions in these matters are more often the product of cynical manipulators like Swan than of genuinely informed intelligence...
...sensitivity of a clod. That's what we have in the White House now. An oaf and a clod-designate. His wife gets breast cancer and he comes out before the cameramen saying, "Wow, you guys aren't going to believe this..." Waving around family crises--it's both tacky and typical...
...junk food - Oreos, Lorna Doones, the kind of crap that Wasp mothers keep on hand for kiddie snacks. Mary with her dia betes and me with my weight problems, we used to love to open that jar and just sniff the sugary smell. We'd say, 'Oh, wow!' then put the lid back on. So that's what I did. I took a sniff, put the lid back on and had a good nostalgic...