Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trying to fit a perfect phrase (in the occasional circumstance that a headline writer comes up with one) into and awkwardly small spot on a page is just one of many tasks for which an assistant night editor or proofer is responsible...
...Douglas once remarked that liberalism is the spirit that is not too sure it's right. Brinkley suggests that liberals were certain they were right but were never exactly sure what they stood for. Brinkley illuminates the rather arcane arguments in which some liberals urged "managed competition" (a phrase the Clinton Administration considered and abandoned for its health plan), while others advocated economic decentralization, and still others promulgated an expanded welfare state...
...post office is my most vital friend. Oprah would say the post office is my enabler. Last spring, the phrase on everybody's lips was" do you want the same people running health care who run the post office?" All I could answer was, YES! The post office sweeps up my thoughts and delivers them into some stranger's eager hands. The wings of the post office eagle mediate between my brain and someone else's. It's pure magic--exactly what we're demanding from doctors...
...expressed his frustration in with the political phrase, "I am for the environment if it doesn't cost jobs...
...equal time, Moloney has O'Connor sing The Foggy Dew; she represents "the young mother of Ireland" whose lover is killed in the 1916 Easter Uprising. In the lamentation Love Is Teasin', Faithfull's crone contralto makes the phrase "What cannot be cured, love,/ Must be endured, love" sound like hard wisdom delivered from a deathbed...