Word: cleverisms
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...millions of mobile phone users from getting hurt in street accidents while walking and texting," the London Daily Mail proclaimed) along with much twittering in the blogosphere about the possible expansion of the Brick Lane pilot project. But it turned out that the lamppost-wrapping scheme was just a clever public-relations ploy mounted by 118118, a British directory assistance company, and Living Streets, a well-known charity dedicated to making cities more pedestrian-friendly. In tandem with the publicity stunt, Living Streets conducted an unscientific survey of 1,000 texting Brits and found that 1 in 10 - or, potentially...
...tale of riddles and clever science, but at the heart of the story of HMAS Sydney are simple names like Robert, Keith and David. When the wreck of the Australian cruiser was found last week, 66 years after she was last seen drifting ablaze in the darkness, it was the 645 men who vanished with her who came to mind...
...unfold in a clever, unassuming...
...revealing or defamatory. Thus, Colbert sets up the reader to fill in the blanks and let his imagination run wild. Colbert’s piece contains sentences like “_____ and I met just after college waiting on tables at _____ in _______, ________.” While this is a clever idea, Colbert’s execution lacks the raunchy details necessary to inflame the reader’s imagination, and the one-note joke gets stale after a couple pages. On the front flap, editor Ben Karlin asserts that this is not a self-help book. But it nevertheless provides...
...victories gave Clinton so much more. Even if she fails to win the nomination, as seems likely, she has finally defined herself as a public figure, and an attractive one at that, with a personality independent of her husband's. She isn't as clever as he is, but she's just as tenacious ... and, in an odd way, more vulnerable and more real. Her flashes of anger and sarcasm, her occasional emotional overflows, her willingness to just go on about health insurance - these are all recognizable human qualities that, in the strangest turnabout of this campaign, have made...