Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Games, and a sparkling late-winter sun shone all week. The "Today" show set up by the opera house to catch sunrises on the harbor and sunsets behind the bridge. Restaurants and hotels filled, athletes sprouted in multicolored warm-up suits, photo ops clogged the botanical gardens. The sunny phrase "no worries," a curious affirmation against doomfulness, was heard over and over, as was a new quintessentially Australian sentiment: " 'Ey, all we 'ave to do is beat Atlanta! Not a very...
...Federal Trade Commission tells us, pop-culture moguls are peddling "adult" entertainment to kids. To borrow a cogent phrase from today's youth: Well, duh. People who are shocked (shocked!) must also be members of the Flat Earth Society. They haven't heard of a little movement called capitalism...
...campaign mode, I'm annoyed that this "adult" culture is aimed at the young - both because kids need a few years to be kids, without being burdened by having to understand the punch line of every dirty joke, and also because this culture debases the true definition of the phrase "adult entertainment...
Castellanos's commercial begins as a 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...
STAMP OUT THAT PHRASE The Dictionary of American Slang defines "to go postal" as "to succumb to tension and fatigue; lose it, stress out." Sound harmless? Not to the U.S. Postal Service, which is doing its best to send the phrase packing. A history...