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...deep doo-doo," slang for predicament. What is even more puzzling is Roget's failure to draw distinctions between the "nonformal" and the downright unacceptable. The fourth cites certain words as derogatory; the fifth does not. It lists such pejoratives as "spade," "nigger," "honky," "redskin," "gook" and "slant-eye" as nonformal and altogether ignores other, similar terms...
...phrase "family values" may derive from an intimation of such breakdown, a flicker of the instant when the moral slippery slope may swivel like a trapdoor to right angles. Americans see the inner Ik all the time these days. They glimpsed it out of the corner of the eye for a moment when an 82-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease was abandoned at the dog track in Post Falls, Idaho, last March. A cautionary scene -- and it turned into a morning talk-show joke: "It's dog-track time for you, doofus!" the host with hyena cackle, whooping...
...pictures may look the same -- at least to the untrained eye. Purists point out that Photo CD images contain only about 18 million pixels (picture elements), which is roughly equivalent to the visual information represented by the 20 million silver molecules in a standard 35-mm negative. But that is about one-fifth the resolution offered by high-quality Kodachrome slides, and it cannot compare with the glorious large-format pictures that Ansel Adams labored to create...
...because the country claimed at least 13 gold medals, after winning only four in the past 96 years. The Chinese team was also a consistent surprise, and its women alone were everywhere one looked -- scoring all 10s in the uneven bars, winning an archery shoot-off with bull's-eye after bull's-eye after bull's-eye, even striding off with the 10-km walk. The Unified Team forgot its differences long enough to enjoy one last triumph, and the Americans had good reason to cheer the Dream Team, as their swimmers, boxers, spikers and pitchers failed to live...
Barcelona leaves sparkling images in the mind's eye...