Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Popular Song, singled out Kern for exemplifying "the pure, uncontrived melodic line more characteristically than any other writer of American theater music." To listen to a Kern tune like They Didn't Believe Me is to realize how elegantly it obeys the laws of melody and mathematics: each succeeding phrase is both surprising and inevitable. In that one song, written for the 1914 show The Girl from Utah, Kern virtually created the prototype for the modern American ballad. From that moment (when his music was already entrancing a couple of teenagers named Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin) to this (when...
...entrepreneur." Reform is needed, he said, because the present tax system is "complicated, unfair, littered with gobbledygook and loopholes." Drawing a stark comparison between today's tax law and his proclaimed simpler and fairer plan, he implied that the choice for taxpayers will be | easy. In a phrase that became the slogan of his campaign-style blitz, Reagan exhorted: "America...
...served by four former Kansas City teammates last year. Whether players or their suppliers are the direct targets of the new investigation, reports that a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh is about to hand down several embarrassing indictments helped time Ueberroth's announcement last week. "Accelerated it," using his phrase. For four months, athletes as eminent as the Mets' Keith Hernandez, the Yankees' Dale Berra, the Orioles' Lee Lacy and the Expos' Tim Raines have been trooping to the witness stand in Pittsburgh, setting the city to whispering about drug sales transacted right in the clubhouse. If a player...
...Line by line, paragraph by paragraph, the writer is emasculated. The most one can hope for is a kind "This stinks," or some other system pathetic comment which does the job in one fell blow. Unfortunately, most compers are subjected to the slow method, slieing along word by word, phrase by phrase, with comments like "Oh, I don't know about this adjective," or "Have you ever really seen nuns wrestle...
...markedly different rhetorical tone. "We need help," proclaimed Secretary of the Treasury James Baker in an internationally televised session with foreign reporters the week before. His point: the U.S. economy can no longer be the locomotive pulling the rest of the world behind it to vigorous growth. Others would phrase the problem more bluntly: some deft cooperative footwork may be needed to prevent an American slowdown from setting off a world recession...