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...Game is capitalized as a proper noun because it is very, very proper. It is like The Country Club: everybody who matters knows that it is in Brookline. Most of these same people know that The Game is The Game...
...Hong Kong is not just a noun, its regulars insist. "`Kong' is definitely a verb, `to Kong,'" says Scocca...
Some responses came immediately. Some took weeks. The ones addressed "Dear Applicant," offered the least hope. They were always very standard four-line letters saying. "Thank you for your letter and resume. Unfortunately, we have no openings for ___ (insert noun for indentured servant) at this time. We will your resume in our active file and if a position becomes available we will contact you. Thank you for your interest in ___ (insert long, WASPy, firm name, i.e. MacKenzie, Brackman, Cheney and Becker--'I'm not really a paralegal, but I play...
Combat. If one noun sums up Tom Harkin's political program and persona, it is combat. The Iowa Democrat proudly describes the strategy that won him five terms in the House and two in the Senate: "Always attack, never defend." He believes that a pugnacity gap kept Democrats out of the White House through the '80s. Now, as he runs for President, he proposes to fill that gap by waging class warfare against George Bush and guerrilla operations against Democrats he considers timid. "The only thing Americans like less than a dirty fighter," he says, "is someone...
Callie Khouri was a bit embarrassed to tell her friends, back in 1988, that she had begun working on a screenplay. After all, in Los Angeles it often seems as though screenplays are being written by everyone who can put a noun and a verb together, and by some who can't. But Khouri felt she was on to something special. She had grown tired of seeing women portrayed in movies as passive partners, terminally ill victims or sex objects. "I wanted to write something that had never been on the screen before," she says. "As a female moviegoer...