Word: cool
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...leaning over me, peering at my screen. "Got any good games?" he asked. Then he whipped out his own Palm (some kind of III) and pointed it at me. No good games, I admitted, but I did have Vindigo, a real-time list of things to do in Manhattan. "Cool!" he said. "I've got a subway map. Want it?" So right there, on the 6:24 to Huntington, we engaged in the Palm ritual known as "beaming"--using our infrared ports to swap programs wirelessly. We both got so excited about beaming with a stranger that we made...
...Mexican.) But Hollywood's running out of ideas (I dare you to count the cliches in Rules of Engagement, Gossip, and Where the Heart Is) so they decide to turn to the one culture they've marginalized the most. And now, all of a sudden, India's cool. Hooray! Bollywood is India's version of Hollywood - only more high-stakes and certainly more incestuous - and it's the buzzword at all the L.A. hotspots. It's gotten to be such a hot term in the industry that Bollywood "news areas" are turning up all over the web - it even...
...today, May 5, is likely to be similar to yesterday and tomorrow. We are, the book reminds us, "such stuff as dreams are made of," and we should stop looking at the world "through materialistic eyes" and start thinking big. Yet in these exciting fairy-worlds we loses the cool certainty that our thoughts have been subjected to some measure of scrutiny and have passed the test. We lose also the possibility of finding something else "out there," something perfectly reasonable yet so beyond our imagination that it does not even figure in our dreams and our invented fantasies...
Always wanted to be a member of the Wu-Tang Clan but were afraid your name wasn't cool enough for the likes of Ol' Dirty Bastard? Quit worrying. Everyone can get a complimentary Wu Name--denoting your status within the multiplatinum rap group at www.recordstore.com/wuname Of course, whether these are just nicknames or sly character assessments is unclear...
...thousand pounds a year is a girl's best friend. Soon, however, Jane's chilly cousin Reverend Rivers proposes marriage with the promise of a lifetime honeymoon spent preaching to unenlightened savages of India. While a man of the cloth suggests some stability, marrying your cousin just isn't cool. Nobody's fool, Jane shoots him down and hightails it to Thornfield, where she finds the mansion in ashes. As the neighbors inform her, the misanthropic Mrs. Rochester lit up one time too many, burned herself to death and her home to cinders. Finishing up the hat trick, the missus...