Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that Caron is preoccupied with stereotypes is shown in the sentence. "They say they have no qualms about using the white man's way." I have heard the phrase "the white man's way" used in old Billy Jack movies but it is not something I use myself. I prefer to say "dominant society...
They are summed up in the phrase "offsetting asymmetries" the recognition that the Soviets will not significantly cut their principal arsenal of ground-based missiles unless the U.S. makes certain concessions in an area where it is particularly strong, namely bombers, cruise missiles and, increasingly, submarine-launched ballistic missiles...
Hidden in all of this, embedded and often engulfing her narrative, Lurie reveals her own love of writing, an old-fashioned and well-honed gift for the clever phrase and the apt insight. "To take off all your clothes and lie down beside some unclothed larger person is a terribly risky business. The odds are stacked almost as heavily against you as in the New York State Lottery. He could hurt you: He could laugh at you; he could take one look at your naked aging body and turn away in ill concealed, embarrassed distate. He could turn...
...Prairie fire, that marvelous phrase you used as Governor in 1967, you used it again this week. That's another way of talking about political realignment or sea-change. Is that what's happening out there with your re-election-a sea-change? Is it bigger than Ronald Reagan...
...Strict symmetry and monoliths left him cold. Rather, an Aalto building is apt to swell or zigzag confoundingly, to have lines and textures that seem more botanical and geological than geometrical. Ahead of his time, he declined to enforce the brittlest dogmas of the new. Thirty years before the phrase was coined, Aalto was a postmodernist, the first...