Word: cleverisms
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Jordan modestly characterizes Shear Madness as "just a fun, silly, enjoyable night out." But this fizzy burlesque is plenty clever, as both an evening's entertainment and a marketing strategy. The show's easy, giddy wit satisfies the customers. They keep coming back because Madness changes every night...
...City, information from the intelligence agencies that tracked him around the world--including the CIA, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration--reveals that Yousef's travels took in huge swaths of the planet. His attack on the Trade Center was only the first of many murderous interludes and clever escapes in an infernal global odyssey...
Oops! I just realized. I'm sinking into the paradigmatic paradigm of Biblical constructivism. (Sounds impressive, huh?) I merely wanted to show you that misleading paradigms can spin off a clever catch-phrase. I have no idea what "Biblical constructivism" is. I just made it up to illustrate the hidden danger of long-worded paradigms. Remember, I promised never, ever to use my paradigms for manipulation. If I do, my everlasting soul will be banished to Dante's eighth circle, which awaits all those who betrayed their paradigms for evil rather than good. But that's another paradigm...
...dressed in a red print dress and square-heeled shoes, seventy-odd years old, sensible British citizen, might see fit to ask. Even she, however, in the thirty years since her first mystery was published, has come to expect the commotion, and she knows how to please her fans. Clever, articulate and often drily hilarious, she obviously delighted in her audience. A week later, in a phone interview form Dallas with a Crimson reporter, she sounded tired (unsurprisingly, caught up in a whirl-wind tour), but responded thoughtfully to what must have been very familiar questions...
...Egyptians deified cats expertly, but they could have taken a cue from the Hasty Pudding Club. The Pudding does it with style. Michelle Pfeiffer's coronation as 1995 "Woman of the Year" Monday exemplifies the clever, tongue-in-cheek adulation that greets one unfortunate woman every year...