Word: genericizing
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...Barbara attended public and private schools. She finished at Ashley Hall, a South Carolina prep school where neglecting to wear white gloves was virtually a punishable offense. At a party in Greenwich, Conn., during Christmas break her senior year, she met George Bush, recently graduated from Andover. A generic dancer -- she complains that whatever the tempo, he does the fox-trot -- George asked her to sit out a waltz. They sat down and fell in love. The two became engaged that summer in Kennebunkport. It was a secret engagement, Bush says, meaning "the German and Japanese high commands weren...
...bikini is a generic term, but the original article has been custom-made in Paris ever since designer Louis Reard introduced his bombshell of a swimsuit in June 1946. Alas, last week the Reard boutique closed its doors. Reason: the sportswear company that now owns the swimwear line plans to sell off the rights to it for a seductive sum. Anyone for a plunge...
...obviously cannot speak for any club but our own--until Perspective did us all the service of publishing a map of club locations, we couldn't have even told you where half of them were. But while we are in no position to generalize about "all clubs" or some generic creature called a "clubbie," neither are any of the clubs' vocal critics (although that fails to stop them). Our club experience gives the lie to SWAT's sweeping charges. There are, proportionally, at least as many Blacks, Asians and Hispanics in our club as there are in Harvard College...
...studios. They know some exposure is a heaven-sent perk, like last month's 60 Minutes report on a murder case that inspired the new Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark. But they also know their job. So they hire a firm to tape a generic interview with their star, then send local TV stations a cassette in which the star's comments can be intercut with questions posed by a station reporter. It's no-fault, no-sweat, no-work journalism...
...generic name for such systems is "vote-a-matic," according to William C. Kimberling, the deputy director of the National Clearinghouse on Election Admisistration. Vote-a-matic machines are by far the most prevalent system of voting in this country, used by 36 percent of the electorate, Kimberling said...