Word: redheaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When her first TV series debuted on Oct. 15, 1951, there was no way to tell that Lucille Ball was beginning an apparently immortal love affair with the American public, and not much reason even to expect commercial success. Ball was a comely redhead with a semisultry voice and knockout legs, but she was also nearly 40 and a veteran of almost two decades in the supporting ranks of show business. She had been a movie actress but hardly a superstar; she had enjoyed moderate success in radio but had only fleeting experience in the new medium of video...
...basement of the 1,100-seat Cort Theater, the kids assemble for a voice lesson under a maze of heating pipes and lighting wires. Take-out fried chicken, quarts of Tropicana are put aside. "Feel how loose your tongue is! Baaa, baaa, baaa," exhorts the teacher, an ivory- skinned redhead, hammering on a piano key with her index finger. The kids imitate the sound and start giggling. "Don't laugh at each other! We're here to learn!" scolds the redhead. Silence. Then a few whispers in Zulu. "Heee, heee, haaa, haaa!" sings the teacher. More giggles. When class...
...hackers who dare challenge this redhead to a tennis match had better watch...
...truth, Inman-Ebel speaks perfect television-anchor talk, one of those serviceable voices from nowhere. She is a slim, freckled redhead with blue eyes and tight little muscles at the corners of a big smile. She dresses for success, has two kids at home, and holds a yellow belt with green tips in Taekwondo. The license plate on her car says I CAN, and she is inclined to say things like "Y'all can too." (She notes that her parents originally came from east Tennessee, and the occasional Southernism makes clients more comfortable...
...most beloved two-hyphen entry, while "state-of-the-art " is such a successful three-hyphen innovation that it may be used several times a week without risking reproof from an editor. Though of lower wattage, nonhyphenated modifiers also count for something in journalese. Since "buxom blond" and "leggy redhead" are no longer in fashion, journalese has evolved alternate descriptions of females, like a "handsome woman" (virtually any female over 50) or an "attractive woman" (any woman at all). Negative journalese, a strong branch of the language, combines a complimentary word with an apparently innocent but actually murderous modifier...