Word: cleverisms
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...this hypothesis is that it declares its own untestability at the outset. There is nothing Steve could do or say under any circumstances that would provide the slightest grounds for either dismissing or confirming the reality of his experience. There could not be an objective test that distinguished a clever robot from a really conscious person...
...quality. But some of it--like the mandoline-thin zucchini that served as pasta in the vegetable lasagna or the marinated shiitake sandwich made with thin layers of dehydrated soft crackers--was bright, fresh and fun. For dinner one night at a raw-food restaurant in L.A. I had clever little vegetable "pizzas" and a bowl of squash shaved into a linguine shape, bathed in curry and topped with vegetables. It turns out there are a lot of ways to eat a salad...
...wordfetti": pieces of cardboard, a bit smaller than calling cards, with the words CELEBRATE, LOVE, PEACE, PLAY and DANCE printed on them. On the back was the logo of Target, which also sponsored those glasses in the shape of a 2007, with the zeroes for eye holes (a clever design that will become obsolete in 2010). DiscoverCard had its brand on the ginchiest bit of couture, a fringed fleece boa, with jingle bells. Periodically, officials went into the crowd to distribute the yard-long sausage balloons bearing the Korbel name. (The ubiquitous rhinestone tiaras were...
...housing projects, sites of immigrant crime and anger. They're even contemplating a nuclear final solution to their problem. That's the pretext director Pierre Morel uses to reinvent the action film with gracefully soaring chases and grittily imaginative confrontations--no CGI, very little wire work, just a subtle, clever use of off-speed cameras and canny editing. The result is a movie that makes all its American competitors look klutzy and flat-footed. Maybe it isn't exactly art, but it sure is kinesthetically dazzling...
...writes that, “Harvard articulates no ideals of what it means to be a good person, as opposed to a well person.” Lewis’ point is that a Harvard education should teach us how to be wise and good, rather than simply clever and contented...