Word: cleverisms
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...only white walls and a rusty pipe; it’s often a few minutes before they see the struggling figurines that they are walking over. Such a delayed reaction calls into question the perceptions of passive violence in our society, and the gender-less figurines provided a clever comment on the status of the glass ceiling in the new century...
...film psycho shaking his booty across a hotel lobby could compete with the sight of jailbait in a garter belt. Christina Aguilera’s own grandmother chastised her on the pages of People, lamenting “What gets me is that Christina thinks she is doing something clever but anyone can strip…she looks like a whore...
...also produced chart-topping singles and sold millions. In 2000 she co-starred with Jet Li in the film Romeo Must Die and was slated to appear in the next two installments of The Matrix. DIED. YOSHIAKI SHIRAISHI, 87, a former sushi chef and inventor of kaiten-zushi, a clever conveyor-belt system for serving sushi in restaurants that uses color-coded plates to inform customers of the prices; in Osaka. In 1958, Shiraishi opened the first restaurant using his method, which quickly gained popularity throughout Japan and overseas. DIED. GOVAN MBEKI, 91, father of South African President Thabo Mbeki...
...staff and later Secretary of Defense under President Gerald R. Ford, he was a fearless backroom operator. Henry Kissinger once admitted that Rumsfeld was the only person ever to get the best of him in a political fight. Rumsfeld's inside moves during the Ford years were so clever and complex that he developed a cult following among conservatives. He was the man who would stop at almost nothing to win, and almost always did. In 1974, he wrote a small pamphlet--Rumsfeld's Rules--about how to make things happen in Washington. He has updated it regularly ever since...
...clues to the tiles. The author suggests they were presented to the Cochin Raja by the Chinese traders who were accompanied by Ma Huan, the treasure ship's chronicler, and an unnamed ambassador (probably Zheng He). The tiles, he claims, were meant for the Raja's palace, but some clever Jewish merchants spread the rumor that Chinese use cow's blood to make porcelain and the King, a devout Hindu, had to give them up - to the Jewish merchants...