Word: cleverisms
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...then, after only one night in jail, Arrington caved in, cutting short his protest by relinquishing his records. "It's not been great fun," he said. His abrupt abandonment of principle left some citizens shaking their heads and wondering whether the protest was orchestrated as a clever media ploy. Only the mayor can answer that question. What is certain is that the controversy exposed the city's raw nerves of race and that it will take a substantial effort to calm them...
Although one of the organization's primary goals is to provide a good time for itself and the crowd, Hwang says that he and his fellow bandies strive for a "tasteful, clever, and intellectual" type of humor...
...stupid in a clever manner. We don't try to show as many phallic symbols as we can" said Michael E. Ronan...
...each short chapter written in the first person. The author's attempt at so many voices when she is not sure of even one seems utter folly. While they are meant to sound distinct, the characters sound curiously similar. Despite their blue-collar vernacular, each remains somehow knowing and clever...
...suburbs along the ring of that doughnut, with the help of lobbying leverage and clever zoning laws, are able to treat central Camden as a dump. Today the main inner-city industry is scrap: Camden exports 1.2 million tons a year. The waterfront is lined with piles of twisted metal -- rusty foothills to the backdrop of Philadelphia's skyscrapers directly across the river. And in March of 1990, Camden County opened its first trash incinerator, where 1,500 tons of garbage from the suburbs is trucked each day and turned to steam. To complete the sense of a town left...