Word: zapping
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...telling you his philosophy of government." Boom! "In the late seventies there was the bottle of Perrier, a French soda water. The fashionable American expense-account lunch drink became lighter and lighter, but not cheaper and cheaper. The soda water sold for $2.50 a glass in Manhattan restaurants." Zap! "The success of People was due to three things: (1) it always showed you other people's living rooms...(2) it always showed you where other people's libidos were plugged in (3) it was a print annex to the TV set." Pow! American popular culture comes splattering to earth like...
...magazine experience, Felker is no stranger to New York newspapering. Before the old World Journal Tribune died in 1967, leaving the afternoon field to the Post, he was hired to help liven up the paper. Felker bridles at suggestions that he took the Tonight job so he could "zap Murdoch." He says he just wants to put out a solid afternoon paper "for people who have been in a news vacuum...
...first annual report for young people slides through the firm's activities with the grace of a skateboarder. In order to explain the function of the company's fiscal year, the report says: "Imagine that you pointed a paralyzing ray gun at Ashland last September 30 and-ZAP!!-brought all our operations to a complete standstill everywhere...
Natalie Wood, actress (Meteor), on critics: "Anyone who says it doesn't hurt when they zap you is not to be believed...
...heart rate shot up as he strained against the force, but he didn't panic for a moment. He had been through this same sensation many times on the centrifuge. As long as he just took it and didn't struggle, they wouldn't zap all those goddamned blue bolts into the soles of his feet. There were a lot worse things in this world than g-forces ... The main thing was to keep ahead of those blue bolts in the feet!... He started pushing the buttons and throwing the switches like the greatest electric Wurlitzer organist...