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These pop phrases are not just cliches. They're more like a bad case of televisionary Tourette's--snappy, canned punch lines that bring the rhythms of sitcom patter into everyday experience. Whether originating from Valley Girls, drag queens or CEOs, these phrases, once they're disseminated by the media, become part of our shared response to the little frustrations of modern life. More and more, that response tends to be a dismissive pique, as these buzzbarbs--expressed with just the right inflections--verbally roll up the window on any nuisance that might come tapping at the tinted glass...
...Loewen group made its offer to sell O'Keefe the Riemanns' insurance company, the deal began to erode. Or so it seemed to O'Keefe, who suspected the Riemann boys of using their insider status with Ray Loewen to undermine the sale. All at once the company seemed to drag its feet and impose new barriers. Even John Turner, then Ray Loewen's right-hand executive, later testified that he too became convinced that no matter how cooperative O'Keefe tried to be, the deal would not be completed...
...dancing in my head, I settled for just hanging my stockings and a string of chili-pepper red lights, and tried to ignore the holidays. Inspired by the previous year's success, junior year I decided that my roommates' Menorah was holiday decoration enough, and I did not even drag the tired stockings out of storage. I took the Charlie Brown approach to Christmas and deemed it too commercial and not worth all the effort. The season went by quickly and uneventfully...
...issue of whether Simpson is a fit parent. "It is beyond comprehension that the custody court has seen fit to proceed now," says Martin Guggenheim, a family-law specialist at New York University. Yet Sorrell Trope, a veteran California family-law attorney, points out that the civil trial could drag on for months and be followed by years of appeals. "You have to have a custody decision before then," he says...
...anchors announce a bloody feud between two of Verona Beach's most notorious clans--thug royalty, whose young princes have the family name tattooed on their skulls. The streets of this resort town sizzle with ethnic enmity, with nose thumbing on a nuclear scale, with the attitude clash of drag queens and skinheads. When the hormonal humidity is this high, only fools fall in love. So the daughter of one clan has eyes only for the son of her dad's hated rival. She searches for him in her dreams, by her swimming pool, beneath her balcony. "Wherefore art thou...