Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look and see, but I don't know if thereis anything to do," Murphy said. "An anonymousperson wrote the phrase on the poem in an openarea with access to anyone...
Just as federal and state courts allow reporters to cover trials, the Ad Board's hearings should be open to the media as well. We do not ask for an unwieldy open forum with students able to raise questions at every turn of phrase, but we demand that members of the community have the ability to assess the Ad Board's now-closed decisions...
...YOUR OWN damn house!" is a phrase that hasn't made it onto an Adams T-shirt for years. Responsibly engaged in aphorizing gay rights and the Nietzschean perspectivist void, complaints about immense overcrowding during lunches have been generally relegated to abusive grumblings and back-biting mutterings while waiting in long lines for Vegan Cheeseburgers...
Occasionally, however, it all works out. The five-story Seattle Art Museum is good-size but hardly expansive. The interior is lucid and properly restrained. It is, in Venturi's famous phrase, a "decorated shed." Around the front doors, the facade is a riot of color, pattern and material: red granite topped by green, blue and yellow tiles, zigzags of terra cotta, bluestone squares and vaguely Moorish arches in sandstone. A grand staircase runs the length of the building, paralleling the street outside; in fact, the stairs become something of an interior street, giving on to an open-front mezzanine...
Courier's muted style is most striking in contrast to the sport's Las Vegas running rebel, Andre Agassi, a model of meticulously manicured grubbiness . whose endorsement career is tied to the unconsciously self-damning phrase "Image is everything." Courier's image is Everyman. Agassi has devoted himself to becoming a teen idol, in the process stirring more talk about his hairdos and haberdashery than about his serves and volleys. When reporters mention Agassi's millions from endorsement deals, Courier replies that he can make plenty wielding a racquet. Not that he is ruling out any options -- he has just...