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...Still, dictionaries must face factoids. So, with due sensitivity, the handsome new Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary (2,230 pages; $50) quarantines about 1,000 examples of jargon, fad words and lamentable journalese and corrals them into a separate "Addenda Section." The Addenda provides a useful glimpse into the netherworld of post-contemporary wordsmithery. Control freak is here, as are dream team, deadbeat dad, drive-by (shooting), granny dumping, latte, managed care, mosh pit, outsource (but not downsize) and wellness. Tattered cliches like reality-based, reality check and wake-up call, alas, refuse to die. Beyond the dread Addenda, Birnbaum...
...Addenda provides a useful glimpse into the netherworld of post-contemporary wordsmithery. Control freak is here, as are dream team, deadbeat dad, drive-by (shooting), granny dumping, latte, managed care, mosh pit, outsource (but not downsize) and wellness...
...matter of trust becomes especially vital for patients such as Christy deMeurers, unlucky enough to find themselves traveling the netherworld of extreme illness, where hope and trust may be all a doctor has to offer. When they're missing, "you feel just strangled," says Christy's mother, Joyce Nesmith, who lives in Oregon. "It's a secret-society type of thing. What you don't know, they don't want you to know...
Ramesses was then placed in a sarcophagus and interred, along with everything he would need to travel through the afterlife: the Book of the Dead, containing spells that would give the pharaoh access to the netherworld; tiny statuettes known as ushabti, which would come alive to help the dead king perform labors for the gods; offerings of food and wine; jewelry and even furniture to make the afterlife more comfortable. It's likely, say scholars, that Ramesses II's tomb was originally far richer and more elaborate than King...
...Travellers club, the exuberant Count Alexandre de Marenches stands out from the sedate, pinstripe luncheon crowd. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 220 lbs., he would stand out almost anywhere. That can be a problem for a man who has spent much of his career in the low-profile netherworld of international espionage. But today, the former head of French intelligence feels like telling tales out of school...