Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of issuing editorial commands from headquarters, today's chains practice something called "local editorial autonomy," a soft-shoe phrase that can cover a lot of omissions. Now that more than 95% of American communities are without competing papers, a monopoly paper can be as much of a gold mine as a TV station. On chain papers, editors and publishers brought in from the outside and just passing through in their careers are often anxious not to rock the boat locally. Some have about as much feeling for a community's sense of itself and its needs...
...other contemporary American poet has written more urgently and directly about this fatal shunt than Anne Sexton. Her poems were torn from her life as a daughter, housewife, mother, lover, mental patient and custodian of what she called "the excitable gift." The phrase is from her poem "Live," from a collection that embraced such titles as "Wanting to Die," "Suicide Note" and "Sylvia's Death." Plath (1932-63) and Sexton (1928-74) were friends who spent hours discussing their art, illnesses and the ways they would kill themselves. Yet it is difficult to read Sexton's correspondence...
Living dramatically, moving on to new experiences after old ones lose their intensity, requires a willingness to plunge into the unknown. For Kosinski, the peculiarly American phrase "blind date" embodies this conception of a positive encounter with the unexpected. "A blind date has all the ingredients life should have," Kosinski said. A person embarking on a blind date perceives the next event in life "as a dramatic date...
...phrase also conveys "an excellent sexual connotation" since sexual curiousity impels one to take a chance and accept a blind date. But Kosinski twists the sexual implications of a blind date in his book, using the term to describe a rape technique Levanter learns as a teenager...
...blind date," originally a slang phrase for a rape technique Levanter learns as an adolescent, soon becomes a metaphor Kosinski uses to describe people's willingness to embark on the dramatic, unpredictable incidents with which he feels they should fill their lives...