Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature," is written in heavily ornamented lettering above the stage in the Boston University Theatre. The Huntington Theatre Company seems to have taken this phrase to heart...
...Modrow, a leading reformer who was elevated to the Politburo only two weeks ago, faced a parliament rapidly awakening to popular calls for more democracy. At an emergency session, delegates to the once ineffectual legislature proposed to remove the constitutional guarantee of a "leading role" for the party, a phrase as basic to Communist dogma as "We the People" is to the U.S. Constitution. On Friday Modrow presented a 28-member Cabinet that included eleven representatives of officially sanctioned minor parties that have begun to wean themselves from Communist domination. Modrow also announced the establishment of "the rule...
...just like to point out that COCA is the first word in Coca-Cola. As in the phrase "Coca-Colonialism," in which zealous of financially sound institutions use media manipulation to do gross disservice to the world's poorer countries. As in money-backed misinformation. As in guerilla theatre." Or, more likely, as in "Lampoon pranksters with a political mask." Ah, excuse me, a politically-correct mask...
...love Germany so much," wrote the French novelist Francois Mauriac, "that I am glad there are two of them." That phrase is cited with increasing frequency these days, but the sentiment is old. Clemenceau expressed it first as he wistfully reflected on the delicate balance of power nurtured in the 19th century by Austria's Prince Metternich. Since World War II the division of Germany has been central both to the tensions of the cold war and to the stability of the cold peace that accompanied...
American manufacturers eventually learned what the Japanese already knew: that new markets can be created by making things smaller and lighter. (The popular phrase in Japan is kei-haku-tan-sho -- light, thin, short and small.) Ten years ago, Black & Decker scored big when it shrank the household vacuum cleaner from a bulky 11.2 kg (30 lbs.) to a 0.75-kg (2-lb.) device dubbed the Dustbuster. Tandy and Apple Computers put the power of a room-size computer into something resembling a television-typewriter and created an industry worth $75 billion a year...