Word: genericism
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...first nine months of this year, imports gained 31% in clothing, 32% in whisky (mainly Scotch), 49% for radios and television sets. Excluding duty-free trade with Canada, auto imports have soared by 70%, or $430 million. Chartener sums up the whole problem in what has become an almost generic phrase: "It's those Volkswagens...
...always a fish story. But any story about Big Daddy sounds like one. Big Daddy is an Atlantic blue marlin. Nobody knows how big he is, but he is no smaller than 1,000 lbs. Nobody knows, either, how many of him there are, but his nickname is surely generic. And he is the most coveted catch...
Candy Skulls. Most of the carefully wrought effigies were intended originally as toys, or as decoration. They are important, says Girard because "toys are a natural, generic expression of a people. They reflect the whole of its life in miniature." Even trivial trinkets, Girard feels, reflect a potent folk tradition derived from Latin America's unique amalgam of cultures...
...government takes a good-bye-and-good-riddance attitude toward the people who line up each morning at the American Embassy in Havana. The never-stopping flow of exiles is undoubtedly an embarassment for the Revolution; however, it also strengthens the regime by removing sources of discontent. The generic label for an exile in Cuba is gosano, which means worm...
...Spitball," actually, is a generic term. Sweat performs as well as spittle, and all a pitcher has to do is mop his brow on a steamy afternoon to make the ball misbehave. Gaylord Perry, who won 21 games for the San Francisco Giants in 1966, is more theatrical: he uses his fingers as a tongue depressor. Detroit's Dennis McLain (1967 record: 16-14) and California...