Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think the combination of the format and the stakes made the candidates feel that they must make very simple points on very complicated issues. The real issue here is a philosophical one, and the President summed it up in a phrase, "Should we conduct policy from weakness?" That's too simple a way of putting it, but that is the essential point-whether one can negotiate better by making a series of unilateral moves, like giving up the MX, Bl, Strategic Defense Initiative [Star Wars], or whether one can negotiate better by continuing whatever programs are considered...
...title, an ironic reference to a phrase in the King James Bible, is based on remarks made by St. Paul; he advised wives to subjugate themselves to their husbands and for husbands to protect "the weaker vessel." In this case and many others, Fraser indicates how the established church reinforced the image of women as morally and physically inferior. For example, women's prayers often included "Grandmother Eve," from whom all women were said to have inherited the original sin. Yet much of Fraser's book reveals how the 17th century was a time of change, even for women...
Both candidates, like skillful attorneys, phrase their campaign speeches to appeal to the "jury's" ear, so that those few seconds of precious film will be broadcast at six p.m. The phrasing of the "jury's" questions--which at the debate averaged a ridiculous 95 words in length--becomes crucial to the message left with the voters. At this particular debate, the panelists were allowed to phrase the same question in subtly different terms for each candidate, a common practice in the campaign as a whole. Perception, nuance, image--all concepts antithetical to the creed of objective journalism...
...Statement Which Proves Itself True Award: to a Lowell House candidate whose position paper includes this masterful turn of phrase: "Although I am not a silver-tongued politician, I am willing to do whatever has to be done to get the job done...
Adorable nine-year-old takes viciously squabbling parents to court, sues them both for a divorce. In today's Hollywood this is known as a "high concept." What the phrase really means is that the concept is so low it can be summarized and sold on the basis of one simple sentence. But inside Irreconcilable Differences' concept (in which the child's court action functions as a framing device for a story told in flashbacks) there lurks an acute, sobering comedy that has as much to say about the price of success as it does about...