Word: zenning
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...Francisco as a 25-year-old in 1969. "In the Haight-Ashbury, I rented a cheap flat and furnished it a la mode with a massive stereo and a mattress on the floor. Something new and exciting seemed to enter my orbit almost daily -- seven-grain bread, Zen meditation, the pungent smell of eucalyptus leaves. There was an earthquake, 4.7 on the Richter scale ... And one night at the Fillmore Auditorium, while Janis Joplin was wailing on stage, a girl in a see-through blouse ran up and kissed me without any warning at all. O, man. California...
Part of John Kennedy's charm derived from his reticence, from a sense one had of something withheld. That was his personality. In a more difficult way, in an earned way, Jacqueline Kennedy's achievement was what she was able to withhold. Celebrity Zen, perhaps: the mystique of reticence...
...just part of the campaign for OK soda, a bubbly, mildly fruity drink for teenagers and young adults that Coke hopes will be its next blockbuster beverage and that the company is testing in nine cities from Boston to Seattle. With OK's deliberately drab cans and pseudo-Zen profundities ("What's the point of OK soda? Well, what's the point of anything?"), Coke hopes to capture a generation that is both anxious about its adult-size problems and inoculated against pitches from having grown up with television jingles at breakfast...
...course, that remark at the post-game press conference brough cries of "Do you know any hot lottery numbers?" form the assembled scribes at the press conference, but this only begs the question: Can Harvard harness the powers of Zen Buddhism in bringing about the successful ending to the latest Five-Year-Plan for a national title...
...smash Tommy Lee Jones' head through a computer screen. Faced with a bunch of thugs in Hard to Kill, he used his fatal grace to dispatch all but the gang leader, then tossed his weapon aside to give the gun-toting goon a sporting chance. Talk about your Zen machismo; he lets the bad guys shoot first because he knows they can't shoot straight...