Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North by Northwest with Roger Thornbook (Jerry Lavin) as an innocent pre-law student and the outraged victim of a mistaken identity who is pursued by police and KGB agents. Lavin pulls off an excellent, recognizable impersonation of Cary Grant, complete with a little "ih" sound before every phrase...
...their February 3 letter, Ph.D. students Tim Reagan and Kim Schive took The Crimson to task for its usage of "doctor/rapist." Admittedly, this is a semantically unsound phrase; however, do Reagan and Schive believe for one moment that any of The Crimson's readers misunderstood the headline ("Judge Decides Not to Deport Former Harvard Doctor/Rapist") because of the slash? More likely they were looking for an opportunity to see their prose in print. Rape is a serious crime. That two Harvard Ph.D. candidates overlook this fact to have fun at a newspaper's expense--and at the expense of rape...
...Dynamics Institute and a lifelong Cub loyalist. The two men had formed All Star Baseball, Inc., in 1980 to run summer baseball camps for children, and late last year they decided to put on a spring training camp for adults over 35, or "middleaged kids," in Hundley's phrase. They expected 35 takers but accepted...
...subject easily worthy of its own story, the phrase strikes the reader as inappropriate and distracting--or at best ill-timed. But at other times, the reverse of such superficiality creates an equal problem. Naylor seems to fear that she will be misinterpreted or over-simplified, so she overstates her messages, diminishing the power with which she initially invested her words. She must yet learn the force of understatement, of latency, for when she relaxes and less her reader work at subtly stated subject matter, her style is a promise fulfilled...
...planar organization of form and the abstract language; from surrealism, the sense of encounter with a "personage," as basic to his work as it was to Miró's. Given enough found metal, he could launch into runs of astonishing inventiveness, like a jazz virtuoso improvising on a phrase. This happened most notably in 1962, when he was invited to make a sculpture for the Spoleto Festival in Italy. On going there he found, in the nearby town of Voltri, five deserted steel mills, littered with offcuts, sheets, bars and, best of all, a mass of abandoned tools, from...