Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...occur to a Harvard student, the most likely locus would be a final club." Does this anonymous and ambiguous "many" have any expertise on alcohol consumption to warrant this bold prediction? If they do have such expertise, Dean Lewis should have listed their qualifications. More than likely, however, the phrase "many believe" is a cover for the phrase "I believe," but worded in a sufficiently vague manner so that Dean Lewis can present his own opinion as fact...
...Remnick tells it, Clay learned the uses of confusion by age 12, when he tied on his first gloves and discovered that his mother Odessa's serenity combined with his daddy Cassius Sr.'s maddening braggadocio sold tickets, captivated journalists and drove opponents clear up the wall. The phrase "I am the greatest" seems to have been almost Ali's first words, but the joke was that the words were absolutely true. The sweet little motormouth from Louisville, Ky., was about to become the greatest fighter in history, fast as a flyweight, strong...
...risk, no regrets, for in his new films, Sir Ian demonstrates how a lifetime of stage wizardry can be poured into a screen character. In Apt Pupil he is, in director Bryan Singer's phrase, "an old, alcoholic, sitcom-watching Nazi" hiding in California anonymity 40 years after the war and amused to perform a facsimile of his old mischief on a curious teenager (Brad Renfro). As Whale in Bill Condon's film, McKellen is sunset charm incarnate, a gay man melting inside his decaying body for the gross, cheerful fellow (Brendan Fraser) who works in the garden...
McKellen is alive and available in Hollywood--and, did we mention, as vigorous as a colt? "When you quote me in this story," he says with a conspiratorial smile, "perhaps you could use the phrase 'says a youthful-looking McKellen...
...R.E.M."--this phrase has repeatedly been used to describe the nearly twenty-year-old band since the release of Monster in 1994. After the departure of Bill Berry, R.E.M.'s drummer for the past 18 years, the idea of another "new" R.E.M. seemed inevitable. The departure left Mike Mills, Peter Buck, and Michael Stipe as the remaining core of '80s indie-rock's greatest band, despite their previous promises that the band would break up if one of the members left. The absence of a real-life drummer has opened the band up to critics who have ragged...