Word: platformization
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...stage will come to life in mere hours, but it already shows hints of 15th-century England. Cocoa-shell mulch that crunches underfoot covers the stage floor. Three huge rocks--actually large chunks of styrofoam--lie on a large platform beside the main part of the stage. A curved and seemingly rickety ramp meanders its way from a height of about 10 feet down to the stage...
...Viacom building draws closer and closer. Ahead of us in line, Jacqueline decides that it is time to change into her performance gear. She tears off her jeans and paints on a pair of black pedal pushers. She kicks off her sneakers and straps on a pair of platform, open-toed shoes. She peels off her sweatshirt and buttons on a white, scoop-neck blouse. Jacqueline's looking hot. She's also shuddering from hypothermia...
Kamil Redmond and I were elected on a platform of an expanded vision of student services. We felt we could focus on important and far-reaching on-campus issues, while allowing the council to take up more political issues if it so chose. To that end, the Council has tried to concentrate on student group and individual quality of life issues...
...this instant platform been lost on our politicians. Newly minted political thinker Jesse Ventura suggested that if controls on concealed weapons were relaxed, the killings might not have occurred -- positing the novel concept that a well-armed student body is the best defense in a democracy. Gary Bauer opined that too few children have been told that they're created by God. A few, like Lamar Alexander and Ben Nighthorse Campbell, directly addressed the responsibility of parents, but stopped short of blaming these particular parents. Such specificity of guilt is uncomfortable for America, which prefers vague, generalized culprits less offensive...
...Viacom building draws closer and closer. Ahead of us in line, Jacqueline decides that it is time to change into her performance gear. She tears off her jeans and paints on a pair of black pedal pushers. She kicks off her sneakers and straps on a pair of platform, open-toed shoes. She peels off her sweatshirt and buttons on a white, scoop-neck blouse. Jacqueline's looking hot. She's also shuddering from hypothermia...