Word: baits
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...quality of work in "Bizarro Comics" definitely reaches the higher, but still limited, level set for it. But readers looking forward to radical reinterpretations of American icons may feel suckered by a bait and switch. Others readers drawn in by the superheroes will be missing out on the truly uninhibited voices they could have been introduced to. DC just needs to have the courage of their convictions...
...been on Microsoft's case, in one form or another, for over five years now. His remedy ruling was effectively a one-fingered salute to the appeals court: if this is wrong, it said, don't bring it back to me. He must have known they'd take the bait. It didn't matter: his point had been made, and made loudly...
...first's themes, somehow lacking" because the similarly hypothetical author "tries to tackle too much." As it happens, there is some recapitulation in Whitehead's second novel--race in America, the trials of assimilation facing aspiring blacks--but only a coolly confident writer would dangle such alluring bait before potential reviewers. Whitehead won't get a bite here...
...sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy" - led to a wave of bad press and gave the administration's critics fresh ammunition to dismiss the plan as a sop to the oil, gas and coal industries. That characterization may have been an over-reaction, say critics, but why bait the enemy? Cheney's speech, says a senior administration official, "took a punch when it didn't need...
...what damages would today's judges award Christopher Marlowe? He wrote a wildly popular poem called The Passionate Shepherd to His Love that was answered, in identical verse form, by Sir Walter Raleigh in his The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd. Then John Donne piped up with The Bait, a bawdy variation that opened with the same line ("Come live with me and be my love") as Marlowe's poem. "Immature poets imitate," T.S. Eliot wrote some centuries later. "Mature poets steal...