Word: cool
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Hybrids allow people to feel they are doing the right thing for the planet," says Michael Feinstein, a Santa Monica councilman who just bought a Prius for his mother. That's nice, but the breakthrough is that Americans finally have green cars that are convenient enough and cool enough to drive...
...year--RZA, Divine and Oli Grant, the band's corporate brain trust, feel the group has spread itself too thin. "A few years ago, I told my brothers [fellow Clan members] that the W is gonna be like the Mickey Mouse ears," says RZA. For brands trying to be cool, though, ubiquity can be a bad thing--just ask Gucci. The W began showing up on too many things, while the band hardly showed up at all. It got to a point where the whole group assembled only once a year...
...life-it's a poker game of the ultimate stakes. Yet, at the same time, Thorne is so wholly in control of the situation that you never feel the jolt-that cinematic shot of adrenaline-that leaves you perched on the edge of your seat. Crowe's character is cool and unflappable, handsome and rugged, but a just a bit too muted and restrained for comfort. The same could be said of the movie he inhabits...
Because neither Gore nor Bush had anything remotely resembling "cool." It certainly wasn't for lack of trying. Both candidates employed entire staffs of spin doctors and pundits who spent countless (billable) hours making each man "look good" We heard that Bush was being told to act like he actually had a brain, and that Gore was urged to act as if his veins contained real blood. But apart from these rather superficial stage directions, neither group was successful in creating any real "product differentiation" between...
...Abel also teaches CS-121. She said that her favorite part about being a teaching fellow is "office hours. I really like being able to explain things one on one. It's cool to see the moment of realization on a student's face. You can see you're making a difference...