Word: dreading
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...netherworld of post-contemporary wordsmithery. Control freak is here, as are dream team, deadbeat dad, drive-by (shooting), granny dumping, latte, managed care, mosh pit, outsource (but not downsize) and wellness. Tattered cliches like reality-based, reality check and wake-up call, alas, refuse to die. Beyond the dread Addenda, Birnbaum says, the dictionary is sound and scholarly, comprising more than 315,000 entries (1,500 of them updated), with etymologies aplenty, regional variations and usage guides. Dictionary lovers should find the contents illuminating, despite depressing evidence that the English language is getting a severe dumbing down. That term, oddly...
Beyond the dread Addenda, the dictionary is sound and scholarly, comprising more than 315,000 entries (1,500 of them updated), with etymologies aplenty, regional variations and usage guides. A selection of well-known names, places and events is even catalogued handily in the main text. Dictionary lovers should find the contents illuminating, despite depressing evidence that the English language is getting a severe dumbing down. That term, oddly enough, is not to be found in these pages. --By Jesse Birnbaum
Cambridge, especially Harvard Square, is actually kind of fun in the summer. Survivors of previous hot months here will agree that there's nothing to dread--in fact, there's a lot to enjoy...
...some random victim will appear and proceed to die horribly in spite of all Angelo's heroic efforts, suspending the viewer in a permanent state of ghoulish expectation. Those not killed by the cholera are reduced to panic-stricken animals, ready to turn on anyone suspected of spreading the dread disease. Oddly enough, this aspect of human nature is portrayed in a purely comic manner, highlighted by a brief but very funny cameo appearance of Gerard Depardieu as the harried mayor of a cholerastricken town. However, this humor doesn't really lighten the rest of the movie, which is pretty...
...even find someone to run for its top slot--other than Perot. Last week the most likely alternative, former Republican Senator and independent Governor Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, said he would not run. Any Reform Party nominee would have to bring his own bankroll or rely on those dread special interests, since campaign-finance laws prohibit Perot from spending his billions on anyone for President but himself. That means the Reform Party may wind up being about Ross Perot after...