Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...auspicious beginning it was, too. I was tardy for the introductory meeting of the SEO program (no, not the Student Employment Office; these initials stand as symbols for a phrase--which escapes me now--for more arcane and laden with significance that that). The program places enterprising minority youth--i.e., me--in Wall Street investment firms for the summer, where we can get out of the house, have power lunches, network, you name...
...feel presumptuous enough to condemn all academia with a flippant phrase and a frustrated squeal. I despise people who take the discussion too seriously, as well as those who don't. I'm just thankful that I'm not like the others...
...closes one of Bauhaus' better songs, "Spirits," which was almost as good at the Murphy concert as on the Bauhaus record. On vinyl, "We love our audience" night or might not be the real McCoy. But when it's emphasized with stony eyes and a bony accusing finger, the phrase's contemptuous undertones hit full force. Murphy leaves us with the feeling that maybe he's taking his usual Vincent Price routine...
...anonymous sailors of Stars & Stripes, well-educated men slaving for $75 a week, have a telling phrase for what they do. They speak of their "commitment to the commitment." During the races few words are ever necessary, and those are gently spoken. But in practice runs the banter is uncommonly happy. "What do you think, campers?" says Conner, who never seems to command, only question. "Will anybody be heartbroken if we change this sail? Shall we put up Dolly?" Perhaps a revolutionary and certainly a ! provocative new spinnaker -- featuring rows of billowing bulges -- is on loan from the N.Y.Y.C...
Just before airtime, Wright inserted a phrase responding to Reagan's exhortation "Let's go to work." Congress has already been at work for three weeks, Wright replied, and in that time has, over Administration objections, advanced legislation for cleaner water, completion of the interstate highway system and shelter for the homeless. None of the measures were "budget busters," said Wright, though three days later Reagan vetoed the water bill for budgetary reasons...