Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...official ceremonies are falsities, of course, freeze-frame displays of institutional continuity. (A nickel, please, for every TV commentator who used the phrase "orderly passage of power.") But this Inauguration Day seemed more of a pretense than usual--the disjuncture between what was going on and what was really going on starker, like one of those neo-Freudian sophomoric plays of the 1950s in which characters speak their lines, then say what they are thinking under the lines...
...charts that year, before being ousted by the Beatles. The muddled lyrics of the song can be blamed on the primitive studio conditions in which it was recorded; Kingsmen lead singer Jack Ely had to scream the words into a microphone suspended 12 feet above his head. Hardly a phrase in the song can be understood, but rumors that the lyrics were obscene persisted. Federal investigators played the song at varying speeds, searching for profanity, but ultimately came up empty. "We found the record to be unintelligible at any speed we played it," they concluded...
...describes a typical private session with Gates. Pacing around a room, they will talk for hours about future technologies such as voice recognition (they call their team working on it the "wreck a nice beach" group, because that's what invariably appears on the screen when someone speaks the phrase "recognize speech" into the system), then wander onto topics ranging from quantum physics to genetic engineering. "Bill is not threatened by smart people," he says, "only stupid ones...
...cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
However provisionally, the culture of gloom is lifting. People are trying out the words "I will be,"arguably the most complicated phrase in the English language. In the U.S., insurance companies and Social Security pay more than $1.5 billion in disability benefits each year to about 100,000 AIDS patients. But newly revived patients are now thinking about giving up disability and returning to work. Before they can do that, there are questions. Federal disabilities law bars discrimination against people with AIDS, but how many employers will hire an applicant with an expensive health problem? And if the benefits...