Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prophet Muhammad taught that all men are equal. Over the centuries Islam has nourished scientists, philosophers, architects and writers. But the last phrase of the Koran's injunction to "obey Allah, the messenger and those of you who are in authority" is a boon to autocrats. Saddam pretends devotion when it suits his purposes. He has gone from murdering clerics to proclaiming a jihad and televising his prayers during...
Homey the Clown The abusive character on In Living Color was a favorite with gulf soldiers, who yelled his phrase "Homey don't play that!" after hitting enemy targets. In New York City a 10-year-old bragged that he was imitating the ornery Homey when he hit an old lady on the head with a sock full of sand...
...does not guarantee public access. Sanborn's sculpture features a 2,000-character encoded message that is believed to have been penned by a well-known writer whose name has not been disclosed. Besides the artist and the author, only CIA director William Webster knows what the top-secret phrase says, according to an agency spokesman. The CIA does not allow the general public to visit its Langley, Va., compound, so Kryptos is on view only for employees or authorized visitors. Ironically, the Sanborn sculpture constitutes what the CIA calls its "Tribute to Information...
...Michael J. Arlen '52 wrote in his book The Living-Room War (which coined the common phrase) that television coverage of Vietnam "all sounded very safe and institutional, and rather like a rerun." Arlen chronicled a history of rigged enemy casualty figures, over-statements about the effectiveness of "search-and-destroy missions" and air raids, and lies by senior administration officials about the need for more troops. All the while, this information went unquestioned by TV news. The military's war had become the media...
Reich's thesis is sound-bite simple: economic nationalism has become as outmoded as the typewriter. The dominance of globe-girdling corporations like IBM, Sony and Siemens has rendered America irrelevant in a traditional economic sense, along with all national borders. This "global web" (a favorite Reich phrase) means that today "a sports car is financed in Japan, designed in Italy, and assembled in Indiana." Thus it is folly to subsidize or even root for an American company against its Japanese or European competitors, since such national labels are just convenient fictions, like tankers flying the Panamanian flag. What matters...