Word: zapping
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...voice was caught in a nelectronic echo chamber and the overlapping, intensified HEREHERE is finally cut off by two horizontals converging on the center of the set... ZAP...
They are talking away without voices at a camera that is feeding us the picture. BZZZZZaappp! Zap! zap...
...thinking your own thoughts peacefully. But that isn't so any more. All you can do is to pay your five million dollars to stand screaming in the third row at some ultra-name group doing it up truly loud. Too loud, you know; and then (zap!) they're out of town...
...your fascinating "Top of the Decade" issue [Dec. 26], you omitted an extremely important part of modern living -the frantic changes in America's vocabulary. The following are three areas of change and some samples: 1) new words: cybernetics, zap, finalize, multimedia; 2) old words rediscovered and popularized: ambience, relevant, charisma, geriatric, black, guru, spectrum, style of life (plus four-letter words formerly heard only in an Army barrack or pool hall); 3) common words with radically changed meanings: trip, pig, square, soul...
...America, Marvin paused to receive a scroll declaring him an honorary Houstonian, then ducked into the Rib Room for a press dinner. Asked about John Wayne, he stared at two reporters with mock malevolence across his tossed salad, slowly raised a pointed finger from an imaginary holster and cried: "Zap! Whammo! Jesus, the guy's still got it." But, said one reporter, "Wayne's 62 now and his fight scenes are beginning to look a little-well . . ." "Fight scenes!" roared Marvin. "Hell, I thought those were his love scenes. Hey, don't print that. Oh, go ahead...