Word: cools
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...Unlike most pop musicians who regarded a sullen look as a statement of cool, the Beatles were giddily exuberant and naturally humorous. They were huge fans of the Goons, a British comedy ensemble featuring Sellers and Spike Milligan, whose anarchic radio and TV shows were a '50s foreshadow of Monty Python. Just as they took to their record producer, George Martin, because he had produced comedy records with Sellers and the Goons, so they felt a kinship with Shenson. At this point, Shenson could have easily opted for a standard pop film formula. A sitcom writer could devise a fluffy...
...only downside of this proposal is that it punishes the least culpable members of final clubs--the ignorant initiates. Initiates are the most sympathetic of all final club members. They just want to be cool, to have a place to party--and if it means drinking until they pass out, so be it. They aren't yet a conscious part of the perpetuation of elitism and sexism that characterizes final clubs...
...cool way to share information and although I wasn't a regular user, I'm sorry to see it go," Losier writes in an e-mail message...
...thanks to the media, the facts are everywhere. As someone who wants to be a journalist, I find it cool that the national news media are devoting energy and resources to an actual news story. This is not J.F.K. Jr. or Princess Diana, but something real, with consequences for just about everyone. The so-called O.J. treatment--wall-to-wall coverage, intermixed with pundits and talking heads--is exactly right for what's happening. And there are three cable news networks to choose from, each with a different type of coverage. The media is playing its mediating role just right...
...quoted an independent Miami-Dade canvassing board member describing the GOP crowds - there merely to protest the closed-to-the-press proceedings, Bartlit said - as "noisy and peaceful." Lieberman and other Democrats' charges of thuggery, Bartlit said, were "designed to heat up the situation." Bartlit's job is to cool...