Word: oxymoron
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...stores better known for Kenmore washing machines, Craftsman tools and Weatherbeater paints, women's fashions have suffered a persistent image problem. Says Kurt Barnard, publisher of the Retail Marketing Report: "Ask the average woman if she would care to wear a Sears Roebuck cocktail dress. It's an oxymoron...
...Promote Middle East stability. To a certain extent, "Middle East stability" is an oxymoron. Arabs and Israelis rarely see eye to eye. More often, they see eye-for-an-eye. But the U.S. has had a strong stake in preventing massive conflagrations in this oil-rich, strategically vital region...
They may call this movie Havana. But in our hearts we know it is Casablanca. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Indeed, for the first hour or so it is a very good thing. For director Sydney Pollack is a living oxymoron, a meticulous romantic. In reconstructing, very persuasively, the life of the Cuban capital as Fidel Castro's revolutionaries prepared to take it in the waning days of 1958, he also recaptures something of the doomy delirium of the film that obviously inspired him. And some of its smartness too: the dialogue -- especially that of its resident cynic...
...some audiences -- and even to some producers -- a woman comic is an oxymoron, like a wise fool. Whenever Rudner has been considered as the potential star of her own TV show, she says, "the first thing that happens in all of my interviews is, 'We'll assign writers to you, and they will follow you around.' I say, 'But I am a writer. Can't I make a contribution?' And they say, 'Well, you're not really network approved, because you haven't written anything yet.' " No wonder that Rudner is off in Britain now, shooting a series...
Mark J. Sneider's "Progressive Conservatism is no Oxymoron" [April 13] demonstrates the type of petty partisanship which should be eliminated from American politics...