Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EVENING WITH THE RAT PACK (TV Land) This amazing artifact tape captures Sinatra, Martin and Davis in 1965, at the height of their joint fame. With Johnny Carson as emcee, the avatars of cool sing for typical burgher fans. Frank is a bit stiff, but Dean performs with oozing plushness, while Sammy winces at some racial cracks...
...Remember when you thought an AFC team would never win the Super Bowl again? Well, John Elway and his Broncos won an upset Super Bowl XXXII, and then used that momentum to try for a perfect 1998 season. And for the first time in recent memory, they made football cool. Anyone who saw Elway's 14-yd. catch...
JOHN WATERS, actor, director, writer: "Unlike other urban centers where everybody is too cool to have sex, Baltimore is a more erotically spontaneous city, and that can lead to, well, annoying and nationally embarrassing consequences...
...feelings again. I've noticed you have a deep affection for the word "hip." You say it pretty often. I get the feeling that you secretly mean "hep"--something about the way you use the word belies a kind of nostalgia for hepness. Probably because you use the word "cool" in its vicinity. "Cool" like "hep," jazzy, zoot suity, snapping fingers, loose at the wrist, scatty...
...hate it when someone at the next table in a restaurant thinks it's cool to yammer away on his cell phone? Well, there's a new book out to set him straight: Wireless Etiquette by Peter Laufer ($14.50 from Omnipoint, available at branden.com) Maybe you can copy a few appropriate pages for your briefcase and pass them out to offenders...