Word: phrasing
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...Fifties/early-Sixties recordings. The majority of the tracks on the first disc are either written or co-written by Jones, most often with boyhood pal Darrell Edwards. That includes "Mr. Fool," a languid honky-tonker about lost love that is perhaps the supreme recorded example of Jones's exquisite phrasing. "No one can ever call me Mr. Fool no more," runs the last line of the chorus. Each of four renditions of the phrase takes you on a spellbinding journey of his vocal arsenal - swooping, clipping, playing with the beat, riding herd on the back-up band. In those lines...
...TIME: There is a phrase from the literary past, "shopgirl fiction...
...Gore-Lieberman counterattacks were labeled "Reality Check" and addressed every single issue raised in the debate, from Social Security (incidentally, could someone please teach these poor candidates to pronounce this phrase? Phonetically, now: It's so-shul, not sossal) to education reform to prescription benefits. Bush-Cheney called theirs "Setting the Record Straight," and pretty much stuck to the same laundry list of issues...
...uses the phrase "risky tax scheme...
Bush was a member of the Skull & Bones secret society at Yale. It is rumored that if the phrase "skull and bones" is used by a non-member, tradition prescribes that members leave the room. Should Gore use this phrase and should Bush leave the debate early, take a long drink, 'cause it's all over...