Word: newsweekly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another panelist, Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Les Payne, criticized Richburg's "adeptness at applying the bandages after inflicting the wounds...
With the new concern about President Clinton's campaign fundraising and with the general fear about the First Lady playing any sort of policy role, the First Daughter, Chelsea, is being heralded as the best of the Clintons: cool, poised and classy, as Newsweek put it a few weeks ago. Cool, poised and classy. I didn't remember hearing these descriptions four years ago. And I was right...
...four years ago, we are left to wonder what has changed. Has the media turned over a new leaf? Or has Chelsea herself changed? One sentence can answer all our questions. Last year, when Chelsea first reappeared in the public eye on tour with her mother, two Newsweek reporters wrote a commentary praising Chelsea and how she had grown up so well despite the fishbowl phenomenon. Yet, in their surprise at Chelsea's new appearance, they wrote: Is this the same awkward orthodontically-challenged girl who moved into the White House three years...
...course, Chelsea's other redeeming qualities are heralded throughout the Newsweek article as well: her academic abilities, her filial devotion. But she had those qualities three years ago. It's just that no one noticed them then. Is the media so shallow that it judges by appearance first...
...seems to me that this limited, minimalist view of language leads to more "opposition" than using language to describe other languages, as Ms. Barenbaum fears, because it keeps language bounded and discrete. I hope Ms. Barenbaum does not propose that speakers of Ebonics found a newsmagazine to rival Newsweek to cover Ebonics and thus avoid "opposition...