Word: dubs
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...more to this movie’s general lousiness than met the eye? I decided to give myself seven days to digest On the Line before I would write my review—seven days to search my soul, to go on what some Native American tribes would perhaps dub a “vision quest...
...Toor and her colleagues go to bat for students they dub "mini-mes." Toor herself is a leftist marathoner who falls for socially conscious students who write their essays about running. She also champions a young woman whose answer to the Why Duke? essay begins "because it isn't Yale." (Toor, a Yale alum, writes of her own college years: "While I was there I never used the words 'Yale' and 'happy' in the same sentence.") "I was personally most turned off," she confides of her first year on the job, "by the Junior Statesmen of America and by kids...
...blues) found the ideal blend of honking sax solos by King Curtis and the singers, who had distinct comic personality: Gardner?s lead tenor in a vaudeville vibrato of fear and trembling, Bobby Guy?s smart-guy growl (a nastier version of the Ray Charles tout-voice), Dub Jones? mindshaft bass delivering the cool catchphrases (as parent: "You better leave my daughter alone" and "Don?t talk back!"; as Charlie Brown: "Why is everybody always pickin? on me?") The Coasters? hits were loud, terse, vivid and un-sit-down-to-able: baby, that is rock ?n roll...
Republicans, not surprisingly, take a more rosy view. They don't deny that the surplus is shrinking, but they blame what they dub the Clinton economic slowdown. (Most economists blame the tax cut and the slowdown for the surplus shrinkage.) And the G.O.P. points out that even a reduced, $160 billion surplus amounts to the second largest ever. Republicans predict that Bush's tax rebate will soon give the sluggish economy a lift, generating more growth and higher tax receipts. And they claim that the real goal of the Democrats is to repeal Bush's tax cut. As Senator Pete...
...this recreational multitasking is not only a technical change but an assault on the very couch-potato philosophy of leisure, which I hereby dub chaise-pomme-de-terrisme. In today's productivity-minded, techno-Puritan culture, you are a sloth and a loser if you aren't doing at least two things at all times: making a cell-phone call while checking messages on your Blackberry, checking stock quotes while making love to your partner, and so on. It's strange to think of watching the tube as a throwback to a simpler, more contemplative day, but that's what...