Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...little bit of a jack-of-all-trades. Of course, the other part of that phrase is 'and master of none,' " he quips. "These are topics I've had experience with, but we have such a rich environment. I hope to learn in every single one of them...
Reading the ratings for the two-hour special, which climbed steadily from 10 million viewers the first half an hour through the electronic shivaree to nearly 23 million, you could almost hear the phones ringing across America Tuesday night as viewers uttered the eternal phrase "You will not freaking believe what's on Fox." Fifty women, running the gamut from merely attractive to damn!, chosen from more than 3,000, competed for the hand of a San Diego multimillionaire (barely; his fortune is estimated at $2 million) in what amounted to a beauty pageant minus the class and intellectual heft...
Last year my Time Inc. co-workers and I received our sister magazine's swimsuit issue wrapped in a brown interoffice envelope. A white strip on the cover said FOR OFFICE USE. Though I had seen that phrase before on our publications, the thought of people somehow "using" this in their offices seemed really disturbing...
...print. An avid performer, Emmy auditioned for a childrenis modeling and talent agency after soloing in a church choir. After turning down her first offer, Emmy began to climb through the ranks of modeling. iI was offered a contract, but Mom and Dad said no. I think the phrase echild modeli conjured up some scary images for them, and they were very against my having a Jon Benet Ramsey kind of life.i...
...this time to the cause of campaign finance reform; his self-promotion as a "reformer with results" was startlingly disingenuous coming from an establishment candidate, especially as his proposed ban on soft money would place few limits on the contributions of wealthy individuals. Bush's website now spouts the phrase "reformer with results" so many times that it occasionally forgets to include verbs in its zeal to portray Bush as an outsider: "Of the major candidates, the only one who does not have a D.C. ZIP code." (Perhaps this technique is, in some way, a subtle reflection of the candidate...