Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been the criticism of Israel's ambivalent approach to the "occupied" West Bank. Yet unlike in that region, Israel has no designs on settling Southern Lebanon; it maintains a presence in the area strictly to ensure the security of its Northern citizens. Hence, the use of the phrase "legitimate act of resistance" is also unjustified. The Lebanese people are not leading the fight against Israeli occupation. In fact, Hezbollah, the group leading this noble resistance, is an element foreign to Lebanon. According to CIA and U.S. Navy profiles of this terrorist organization, Hezbollah is an Iranian- and Syrian-sponsored group...
...must realize that positive change is difficult to come by and sometimes requires more urgent action, not "subtle" argument. To borrow a phrase, we do not believe that respect and understanding is too much to ask of Harvard's student body. --Dionne A. Fraser '99 Dahni-El Y. Giles '99 Josephine S. Noble '99 Terrance Q. Norflis '99 Jason B. Phillips...
Between father and son, there are differences in style. If the father is known for the plainness of his preaching--what made him absolutely impossible to ignore was not his turn of phrase or his way with a parable, but his utter, breathtaking conviction--then the son's style is, if anything, even more unadorned. The older man would pace the stage pantherlike, an outsize Bible often waved aloft in the left hand, his right index finger jabbing forward as if to impale Satan against the horizon. The son stands as though his feet were in cement, his posture...
...many Americans the phrase great soap opera--like a great Douglas Sirk movie--will always remain an oxymoron. Pity the unenlightened: melodramas, like cheap beers, are not created equally--there are Rolling Rocks in the sea of Schmidt's Lights. For many of its 26 years on air, All My Children has been one of TV's best soap operas, not only because it limns believably impassioned lovers and cruel, cruel villains and tantalizingly suspenseful story lines, but also because the writers and actors have always recognized the inherent absurdity of the genre in which they work. Susan Lucci...
When hip-hop came into its own about a decade ago, soul music lost a bit of its soul. Hip-hop took with it a chunk of the fight-the-power spirit that had once belonged primarily to soul and rhythm and blues. Back in the day--as the phrase goes--Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and Stevie Wonder sang of urban blight and soul power, about disintegrating families and spiritual transcendence, about "what's going on" and living in a "pasttime paradise...