Word: cleverisms
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...puzzles what Oprah is to books - an endorsement by the New York Times crosswords editor is as good as gold. He's sold more than 5 million volumes of Sudoku games and has now moved on to KenKen, a numerical logic puzzle invented by a Japanese educator as a clever way to teach math to kids (the name means "cleverness squared" in Japanese). Shortz held the first U.S. KenKen tournament this weekend at the 32nd annual American Crosswords Puzzle tournament in Brooklyn, which drew more than 900 people from across the world - including KenKen's creator, Tetsuya Miyamoto, who flew...
Ultimately, Wolpe believes the group will be acquitted of the charges. "If the defense is clever about this and focuses on the suffering of the people they helped and shows that they didn't technically violate the law, then I think the jury will be forgiving," Wolpe says...
...classic mindfuck. He even admits at one point that “the mindfuck can never advertise itself as such, it must always disguise itself as well-meaning rational persuasion.” As a mindfuck in itself, “Mindfucking” would be quite a clever trick; however, there is not enough evidence to prove that the book is intended as one. It does not seem supportable to claim that the author aims to amuse and flatter his readers in this way, especially after patronizing them earlier with his lengthy discussion of obscenities. In any case...
...you’d rather spend you night listening to the sweet sounds of a capella than Flo Rida’s latest hit, this is the spot for you. Two female a capella groups, the Opportunes and the Fallen Angels (hence the clever title) are holding a concert in Sanders Theater tonight. What's more Harvard than spending your Friday night listening to a capella? (Maybe doing that...
...have to re-create that conversation because we're not actors and it would sound sort of trite. I want to have a nice lively debate. What bugs me is if you get a judge on who thinks that their role is just to be witty and funny and clever and look at me. The show isn't about the judges. The show is about the contestants...