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...disregard the law. "Basically, the first thing you really learn as a cop is how to lie," says Blondie. For many officers, their first taste of shading the truth involves car stops. "Now, say you see some guy driving who you think is wrong," says Blondie ("wrong" in his lexicon invariably means a black youth in a late-model car). "You stop him on no basis that could stand up in court. So you lie if you have to. You say he ran a stop sign or didn't signal or had a broken taillight that you break after...
...Prince Philip's constant love and help, to interpret it correctly..." There it was--the word love. Yes, she had tucked it away in a parenthetical phrase, but no one could remember the Queen's ever using it in a personal context. Will it now replace "duty" in her lexicon...
DIED. IRVING CAESAR, 101, Tin Pan Alley lyricist whose words to Tea for Two, Swanee and many other popular tunes have become a treasured part of the musical lexicon; in New York City...
...ended, Judge Ito has kept a low profile. Unlike other O.J. players, he has declined to write a book or otherwise exploit his celebrity status, though he has spoken on a number of occasions to lawyers' groups. Nonetheless, among L.A. courthouse wags, "pulling an Ito" has entered the legal lexicon to describe someone who has become intoxicated by a celebrity case. Gawkers still occasionally wander into Ito's courtroom, now located on a higher floor, to see the familiar face preside over routine criminal trials. Last April Ito suffered a setback: a federal judge overturned his second most famous case...
...Godiva bar or a Hershey's Kiss is as loud and impossible to ignore as an air-raid siren. It can't simply be that the stuff tastes good. So do popcorn and pizza, but the words popaholic and pizzaholic haven't forced their way into the lexicon the way chocoholic has. Chocolate doesn't just tingle the tongue: it makes people feel good in some fundamental, undefinable...