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  • It sounded like slangy gobbledygook to me, similar to the term Woody Allen used to describe a rock concert when he said, "It achieved total heaviosity."

    Would Henry Higgins Approve? David Fulton 2008

  • It sounded like slangy gobbledygook to me, similar to the term Woody Allen used to describe a rock concert when he said, "It achieved total heaviosity."

    Archive 2008-11-01 David Fulton 2008

  • That is very different from ... what I call the Woody Allen syndrome: someone is on the couch for an hour a day for 50 years at a high cost and they come out the same. ''

    Managing The Mind 2008

  • Case in point: Frank Hargus, a farmer in Ruxton, Kans., said he spotted "a short, skinny guy with glasses who answered to the name Woody Allen" walking across his cornfields at dusk on Tuesday of last week.

    The Borowitz Report: Woody Allen Sightings Up Sharply In 2002 2007

  • Then, according to an associate of Frank's, he called Woody Allen and told him, 'I don't know what the hell is going on back there, but I got my eye on you, and I just wanted you to know it.'

    Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth Taraborrelli, J. R. 1997

  • I think the name Woody Allen puts too much emotional baggage in minds of many people.

    FlickFilosopher.com 2009

  • I think the name Woody Allen puts too much emotional baggage in minds of many people.

    FlickFilosopher.com 2009

  • Lengel tends to do an impersonation of Woody Allen, which is largely uninteresting, yet undeniably effective.

    Tony Bartolone: Play It Again and Again, Sam Tony Bartolone 2012

  • Baron Cohen and Charles are, to paraphrase Woody Allen, "bigots for the left," and their comedy serves to reassure people who already agree with them that their dislike for the South, Christianity, and Conservatism are well-founded and not the stuff of prejudice or bigotry but rather fact.

    Bruno 's Prejudice 2010

  • Baron Cohen and Charles are, to paraphrase Woody Allen, "bigots for the left," and their comedy serves to reassure people who already agree with them that their dislike for the South, Christianity, and Conservatism are well-founded and not the stuff of prejudice or bigotry but rather fact.

    Mike Miley: Bruno 's Prejudice 2010

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