Word: oxymoronality
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...baby boomers, many of whom are haunted by memories of militaristic coaches or being picked last for kickball, a relaxed PE class is an oxymoron. Their children, though, are beginning to benefit from a "New PE" movement that is taking hold in hundreds of school districts across the country. Naperville, which has been cited by the Centers for Disease Control, is a national model. Unlike the old, often dreaded gym class, with its focus on team sports, New PE stresses lifetime fitness. "The old model attended to skills many kids won't be using as adults--and it has left...
...some well-armed opponents. In his monthly column for the beauty magazine Allure, in which he typically dispenses a mixture of grooming tips and inspirational aphorisms, Aucoin took a swipe at the National Rifle Association: "Everyone knows me and sports are like the N.R.A. and intelligence--it's an oxymoron (and boy, are they morons)." The resulting volume of mail suggests there are a lot of people who subscribe to both a strict interpretation of the Second Amendment and a publication that seeks to arm them with the appropriate shade of lipstick. Among the letters were several death threats...
...Bush is running as a compassionate conservative, Cheney as a Republican. The two together are a political oxymoron." LES TUSUP Willits, Calif...
...claim to know Joe Lieberman well. We've talked maybe 10 or 20 times - interviews on the phone, some rides on the Capitol subway. My home in Washington is near the Georgetown synagogue (there's an oxymoron) that Lieberman attends. When my wife was pregnant, he patted her tummy...
...lesser returns with Big Brother). ABC, which doesn't need much help since it began airing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 24 hours a day last August, had a quasi-documentary series called Making the Band this spring. But NBC does not have a single example of that oxymoron "reality TV" on the air. Nothing to try out this summer. Nothing for the fall, either. The peacock network is momentarily without feathers--and so desperate that it seems ready to import Chains of Love, a "funny" bondage-and-dating show that was a flop when it was shown this...