Word: cleverisms
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...dinner Xiao Gugu sends us to Mitsui, a modern Japanese restaurant near the Intercontinental Hotel. The dEcor is trendy and clever, but the food doesn't hide behind wily frills. Our yellowtail sashimi literally melts away into a mouthful of flavor. Nothing tastes anything short of delicious, and at less than $30 for the two of us, Mitsui serves the best sushi I've ever eaten without having to hock the koi farm to pay the bill. Bookings can be made by calling...
...Intyre Story” will dish all the dirt about the administrative squabbles, the ridiculous happenings, the needless bureaucracy, the maddening machinations, the silly student groups and the general insanity that is Harvard College. Readers should expect to be bombarded with juicy news tidbits about Harvard and clear, clever opinions on alternating Tuesdays...
...million peasants leave their land to search for new work in the cities. Even the executives and heads of government oohing and aahing at the fireworks in Shanghai at October's Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum wonder to what extent China will play by the rules or find clever bureaucratic ways to keep goods and services out, as Japan and Korea often have done...
...child of the country's founding father, Ho Chi Minh? That's been a long standing rumor, and Manh managed to duck the question through his 15-year rise through the ranks to the country's most powerful position. "We are all Uncle Ho's children," was Manh's clever, standard answer...
Call me Ishtar. That's good enough, don't you think? I mean, who would call it plagiarism, given that exceptionally clever change I made? And, if they did, so what? I could always say that my stupid, sloppy researcher forgot to include quotation marks, so I thought I was only stealing from my researcher. Of course, the sentence I lifted isn't quite the original, so some fussbudget might say that I'd been trying to avoid the appearance of plagiarism. Mmmm. Call me Irresponsible...