Word: blurbs
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...hundred words in a college newspaper could never do justice to the praise of Polly Jean Harvey, who, after growing up on a sheep farm in Britain, became one of the finest indie musicians of our generation. Nevertheless, this small blurb seems the perfect place to appropriately acknowledge her understated genius. Harvey modestly writes her songs for herself and the fans of great alternative music on both sides of the Atlantic, not for radio stations and big record labels, who could only taint her art through exploitation and commercialization. Quietly, Harvey composed two of the very best albums...
...fairly civil dismemberment of Al Gore's prescription plan and degenerates into what appears to be an astonishing sneak attack. During the last few seconds, in literally the blink of an eye, the word "RATS" appears in bold capital letters superimposed over the phrase "Bureaucrats Decide." The 30-second blurb, which has been running in 33 markets since August, was not pulled, per se, but "was coming out of rotation anyway," according to the Bush campaign...
...Cynwyd, Pa. 5 Suffix with drunk or tank 8 Gulager of The Virginian 11 Angolan rebels 13 Book-jacket blurb, maybe 14 Towel word 15 Bush won't meet with the Log __ Republicans 16 Human genome project head Dr. Francis __ 18 List-ending abbr. 20 Solitary sort 21 Beethoven's __ Elise 23 Gregory Hines' specialty 25 First to putt 26 Israeli in Palestine/Israel talks, Oded __ 28 The Wreck of the Mary __ 30 Blue or green shade 31 J.F.K. terminal listing 32 Exile of 1979 36 Heartsick one 38 Verboten 39 Apple-pie order 41 Name in court decision supported...
Reinert remained blissfully unaware until January 1999 that he was on his way to war. That's when he first heard about the proposed tariffs. "I was at a Portland [Ore.] gift show...and I happened to read this little blurb in TIME about bath products. I thought it was a joke." He investigated. "It was no joke. We were on the potential hit list...
When the embryonic women's cable channel/Web network Oxygen posted a preliminary TV schedule online last fall, the blurb for Trackers--a teen girl-power show, sans "sugar and spice"--asked, "What's a girl to do once she's outgrown Nickelodeon...