Word: cleverisms
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...SwedishAmerican Hospital in Rockford, Ill., is offering a clever gimmick to lure obstetrics customers: Dial-A-Dad, a service in which beepers are given to expectant fathers so they can be paged within a 30-mile radius when mothers go into labor...
This "mystery-play" device, though not particularly clever, nevertheless pulls us through the maze-like plot and through the dizzying Nukespeak of the D.C. policymakers. Indeed, one of the strong points of Kopit's script is his dead-accurate ear for the language and argumentation of Pentagon people...
Floppy disks for personal computers generally come in bare-bones cardboard cases; the imagination all goes into the programming. For the Ability software package, though, Toronto's Spencer/Francey Group has designed a clever casing in black mat plastic that alludes to the injection-molding process itself: the shapes of computer keys and a disk stand in relief, as if actually slipped into the mold. Going to a decorative extreme, Sava Cvek Associates has designed a lamp that seems more like a sculpture than a functional object. Dauntingly tall (6 ft. 4 in.), their light is a lush, glowing monolith...
Somehow, whether at Bright Center or Fenway Park or Duke Soccer Field, I never used to give those taunts a second thought. If they were clever, I chuckled, if they were stupid, I groaned, if they were biting, I worried a bit about the athlete...
...this 1982 semi-autobiographical play, Fugard portrays a bitter, perhaps irreparable break between Hallie (Andrew Sullivan), a clever white prep-school student, and the two black men who had become his surrogate family. Placed in a Port Elizabeth tea-room of 1950, the cast captures all of their pain with power and immediacy...