Word: oxymoronic
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...them (two tenors, a tenorbuffo, a baritone, a bass and a pianist) blended swank and swing in the pop songs, folk tunes and classical airs they sang in German, Italian, French and English. In their clever charts and spritely renditions, "German humor" was for once not an oxymoron. Looking elegantly tuxedoed on their sold-out tours of Europe and the U.S., they spiked their tight harmonies with expert, deadpan vocal clowning; they could imitate band instruments and barnyard fowl. They sang a love song to a little green cactus. They had hits with skewered serenades to girls named Veronika, Isabella...
...really only knew Suzanne through class but nevertheless she had one of those radiant personalities, a class of her own," he said. "She was in a lot of ways an oxymoron in the best sense of the word: warmth, but cool, brilliant and outstanding, critical in a friendly way. She always had a straight up answer...
...freshman invasion has come to fruition. Now that Freshman Week is so beyond passe, the Yardlings are starting to develop precocious Harvard 'tudes of their own. None of the so-called cool frosh (oxymoron check!) will deign to eat at Annenberg, so they're flooding the House dining halls. Watch out for the scarcely postpubescent on the prowl for upperclassman friendship, fun, and more. Yech. The correct response to, "Hey baby, what's your concentration?" is to forget your tray and bus your ass out of there...
...than California and yet more accessible than Bordeaux," says Wine Spectator senior editor Thomas Matthews. "If this keeps up, Chile could be, sooner than many expected, something more than a perennial wine bridesmaid." Even British wine author Auberon Waugh--whose novelist father Evelyn Waugh considered New World wine an oxymoron--gushes over a collection of 1996 and '97 reds from the Montes winery in Chile's Curico Valley. Chilean wines, he says, "are showing magnificent and rich concentration, but also subtlety and changing flavors...
...hasn't yet released its own damage assessment because of heavy clouds over the target area. Don't expect any dramatic reports: "Battle damage assessment is almost an oxymoron here," notes TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "This was a couple of tents and an obstacle course -- we probably improved the obstacle course." Still, destruction of the enemy's assets may not be the best measure of the mission's success: "Far more important here is the signal sent, telling terrorists that if they attack the U.S., they will be heavily targeted...