Word: cleverisms
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...Cornell's fans start a, Harvard Sucks chant. The Crimson Crazies respond with a "You Suck" chant. Clever, kids. Let me remind you these are two Ivy League schools...
...taken political wisemen largely by surprise. How could the Clinton machine - the one that was supposed to mow down the opposition on its way to the inevitable restoration of the family bloodline - come apart so? Bill's shivving Barack in South Carolina looked bad, but wasn't it a clever play to the cheap seats that would attract more votes than it would lose? Hillary's tears in New Hampshire rusted the iron lady a little, but wasn't that just a brilliantly tactical softening of her image at the precise moment it was called for? Maybe. But maybe...
...Many Timorese were astonished by the news, for "the Major" - as Reinado was known locally - was considered a clever and cunning tactician who would rarely put himself in danger. In May 2006, half the Timorese army was dismissed following a strike protesting discrimination against soldiers from the west of the country. The government had used the army to crush the strike with great brutality: at least five men died and many more were wounded. Reinado led his men into the mountains in disgust. He had since eluded capture, using his intimate knowledge of the mountain and bush tracks...
...Tomorrow’s Parties,” with a melody that begs for the careful instrumentation of the Fields’ earlier albums. Instead, it takes a static-bath along with the likes of “Xavier Says,” a less-clever, less-catchy number whose weak melody and unintelligible lyrics probably would have kept it off the album if they weren’t hiding behind a wall of sound. Until the a cappella opening of “Too Drunk to Dream,” the feedback is unrelenting, and despite the highs...
Humans were once thought the only toolmaking animals--until scientists noticed that chimpanzees and other apes could fashion sticks and rocks into tools too. A type of crow can make probes from sticks and use them in clever ways as well, even pushing one stick with another or inserting twigs into holes to collect bugs...