Word: cleverisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been announcing the demise of reggaeton. Here come the paramedics: two middle-class half brothers from Puerto Rico. Calle 13 has eschewed the genre's obsession with machine-gun beats and opted for new-wave keyboards, funk-inspired bass lines and even the occasional clarinet lick. The lyrics are clever--often hilarious--and go beyond babes, bullets and bling. Atrévete-te-te dares an intellectual girl to come out of the pop-rock closet and embrace reggaeton. No doubt Calle 13 will persuade others to do the same...
DIED. Gary Comer, 78, philanthropist and entrepreneur who founded the mail-order giant Lands' End; in Chicago. With an emphasis on sturdy products (famously sold as "Guaranteed. Period") and a clever, anecdote-filled "magalog," the world-class sailor turned a small sailboat- hardware business into a $1.9 billion clothing company before selling it in 2002. Downplaying his savvy, he said, "I picked things I liked, and over the years people interested in the same things gathered around...
...saying Shortbus is up there with Citizen Kane or Drunken Master II; it's mostly clever, sometimes meandering. And I have to say I didn't get all that jazzed by the many gay exertions (or the straight ones). But I was, critically speaking, excited to see the coherent integration of explicit sex scenes into a naturalistic story film. Mitchell said that in press interviews here, he was asked over and over, "Why sex?" I wonder: What took so long? Most people laugh and cry; most people have sex, occasionally at the same time. Sex isn't divorced from...
...some of them his cousins, and they were the ones who really invented the style of narrative journalism. His greatest achievement was inventing TIME's style, which was really how TIME turned the news into a form of entertainment. The style was much more than epithets and nicknames and clever witticisms. It was really a form of helping people to envision the news in their mind's eye. And that was incredibly important before the age of television when the rising middle class was just gaining curiosity about the world around them, and needed a guide to take them...
...will have to spend more time talking about how they handled the Foley affair than either imagined a week ago. Every Republican running for office who took Foley's PAC money - and even some who did not - will have some explaining to do. Seven days ago, it took some clever accounting to see how the Democrats could pick up 15 seats. Now it's not so hard...