Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Apparently, something I've said has displeased a lot of people at the White House . . . I will no longer use the phrase 'White House 10' because I can understand how it would seem offensive to some people." -- CNN Anchor Bernard Shaw, during the network's coverage of the House Whitewater hearings
...convention, I often came across the phrase "Unity through Diversity." Many people at the conference expressed their commitment to this ideal, or at the very least to this slogan...
Fretwork does not use the oft-abused phrase "authentic performance on period instruments" as crutch or excuse for poor intonation, uncoordinated ensemble, or sheer artistic ineptness. Perhaps no other musical field has had so many artistic shams and imposters...
...Ambassador Madeleine Albright said she will begin circulating a resolution among U.N. Security Council members shortly, asking them to allow a U.S.-led force to use "all necessary means" to stabilize Haiti. That's the same phrase used when President Bush approached the Security Council in 1990 to lay the groundwork for the Persian Gulf...
That harsh phrase has been used before about Diller, and all it does is add the glamour of menace to his mystique. No question that this hard-driving entrepreneur has an intimidating manner and visage ("He looks like his head is meant only to cover his brain," says one former Fox executive). But he $ wouldn't have succeeded just by being a slick shark among the entertainment industry's countless barracudas. He made his reputation by making movies and TV shows, by making things happen, by making money for men with more money...