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...still here, and without it, journalistic obsolescence looms (yawns? festers? creeps in petty pace? click one). So this reporter sets out (urls forth?) onto the Internet. And what does he discover...
...innocent enviro wandering the Web--or an innocent black-hearted polluter--learns to click skeptically. Brave souls who reach www.radio4all.org/anarchy/fakes get a list of "anti-environmental" groups, most of them with wonderfully benign-sounding names: the Abundant Wildlife Society of North America, the California Desert Coalition, the Evergreen Foundation, the Environmental Conservation Organization, Mothers' Watch. Maybe most of these really are benign. Dunno. I check out the National Wetlands Coalition, a big-biz coalition against wetlands, and the Global Climate Coalition. The cover of this last org has been blown for some time. It's a consortium including...
...course, the Shakespeare search engine I used to find these quotes has a distancing quality because it displays only the line of text in which the word you want appears. It's up to you to click on the link to the whole scene and discover or recall the context of the language. Part of what has kept Shakespeare alive in our society for so long is his eminent quotability in small catch-phrases. It is easy for a politician, a screenwriter or a columnist to manipulate the poet's words for her own purposes. But the genius of Shakespeare...
...been issued, and it is up to you answer it. This year MIT has chosen Thomas L. Magliozzi and Raymond F. Magliozzi to speak at its graduation, two men you've probably never heard of. Neither, to be honest, had we. These two men are better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers. respected Cambridge auto mechanics and MIT graduates. They are also co-hosts of Car Talk, a syndicated radio program broadcast from the offices of Dewey, Cheetham & Howe in Harvard Square (aka Car Talk Plaza...
...choice seems to be a deliberate mockery of the ordinary criteria for choosing commencement speakers. Neither Click nor Clack is a Nobel laureate; neither is a major world leader; neither an august academic. Why, then has one of the world's greatest universities chosen them? Well, probably because both of them are something you, with all due respect, are not reputed to be: funny...