Word: neatness
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...specifically ladies apparel, how bout those straw baskets that everyone has--I mean, who had the warehouse sale? There are thousands of those suckers around. And the haircuts: girls have bobs, boys' hair is cropped short and neat. It looks like a 50s movie...
...added, "it was a neat perspective--to sit on the bench and watch the game unfold...
...World," is he trying to help out the Ethiopians, or merely indulging in massive star adulation through bad music? The most frequent reaction I have encountered to the project has not been "What an amazing song," or "How great for the starving Ethiopians," but "How neat to see Bob Dylan rub shoulders with Bruce Springsteen." In the Life magazine article, the video, and even the album cover, not one picture of the Ethiopians appears. Instead, the whole affair is being sold as a sort of charity ball of musical megatonnage in the interest of "...saving out lives It's true...
...Cubs' 6-ft. 5-in. general manager, Dallas Green, the last baseball executive still executing on physical fear, is moved to murmur, "They're ready." He is referring to the fans, not the players. "They want to see people shag fly balls." They want to stop and smell the neat's-foot...
...either modest or stately. When confronted with a truly ramshackle fixer-upper, knowing scribes will deflect attention to the surrounding area, describing the residence as "off the beaten track" or "in a developing area," that is, a slum. Distaste for the suburbs is conveyed by mentioning "trimmed lawns and neat flower beds," thus artfully suggesting both compulsiveness and a high level of intolerance for life in its hearty, untrimmed state...