Word: cleverisms
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...Qaeda, some have suggested it was a fiendishly clever idea: hit the media through a means just scary enough to cause panic, but not deadly enough to kill off the messenger. The theory - especially popular among media members themselves, self-loathing as we are - is that the self-absorbed media would hype an attack in its own offices much more loudly than strikes anywhere else...
...Suburbs”, which hit the airwaves early this summer, was a loud, guitar-driven song without a piano note in earshot. However, upon listening my fears were quickly allayed as I heard an album in line with Folds’s progression into a more complex, clever musician...
...gusto and talent. He’s very clever and he executes. He gets knocked around and he gets back up again. I love that type of player,” Kerr said...
...what promises to be a long era of Williams domination. The end of the summer saw two tournament wins in a row by the Williamses--Serena in Toronto and Venus in New Haven. This year's Open was the death knell not just for Hingis, whose weak serve and clever volleying look a century old, but even for the "veterans"--powerful Capriati and Lindsay Davenport, who just did not appear to be in the same league. The generation of Williams contemporaries--players such as Justine Henin and Kim Clijsters--may never...
Every so often, when catchy music, clever marketing and the right timing come together, one record company captures prevailing tastes in a way that enables it to define the musical essence of an era. Motown did so in the 1960s with soul; Def Jam followed in the '80s with rap; and Interscope ruled the mid-'90s by mixing rap and metal...