Word: cleverisms
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...original question, which we now approach from a different angle: Is it always fair to take what the market will bear? Perhaps for athletes--as opposed to magnates, movie stars or meteorologists--the answer is "Not always." This goes to identification. We all realize that were we as clever as Bill Gates or as lovely as Julia Roberts, the world would reward us justly...
...usually think of the lucky ones on sitcoms or HBO specials. But Kyle shows the world of the unknown laughmakers, with their nervous hands on a microphone, the sweat beading on their brows, the poorly timed delivery of a punchline-where the comedy sometimes isn't encapsulated in the clever joke, but in the tragedy of a comic hung out to dry by the silent pursed lips of his audience...
...number 17!), but the pop culture maelstrom of South Florida was too hard to resist. In between lying on the beach or carousing around Coconut Grove, my older brother and I would go looking for election protests... Speaking of election protests, I think those "Sore / Loserman" posters are wonderfully clever... With all the recount frenzy, it looks like everybody wants a do-over. The Backstreet Boys are calling for a recount of CD sales after their first week tallies for Black and Blue just narrowly missed the 2.4 million record set by 'NSync in March... On a similar note, doctors...
...Kaleidoscape wastes no time in introducing its star. He makes an appearance sans makeup before the show even starts; then, in a clever opening number, the entire cast helps Larible get into costume and in character. It's like seeing one of the great mysteries of the circus revealed before your eyes...
...What Americans seem to regard as dirty cheating is clever, high-paid lawyers going into the courts to try to actually force judges to rule on what's legal and what's not, or even to make a little law themselves. Now, that's not fair. We're comfortable with buying or wrestling votes, or busing in mobs of protesters, but trying to use the courts to get people to abide by statutes, or to clear up murky ones, well, that's dirty pool...