Word: proclaimer
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...designers founder, the style that always seems to endure and prosper is Amekaji, as the kids call American casual. Says Tomohiro Ando, sales manager of Octopus Army: "American design remains the base. Amekaji is always such a comfortable and functional look." The labels of Octopus Army shirts thoughtfully proclaim those virtues in the fractured English beloved by Japanese teens: "Best in the field of Spangled Stars, Americanized as hell as well as originality." Exactly how that translates is not important; it's the feeling and verve that convince the eager buyer...
...article begins with the premise that "Something is a bit odd about people who proclaim 'I want to help other people"' and implies that "something" is that these people are stark raving mad. In the third paragraph, for example, the author quotes one woman as saying "What still strikes me, is I'll go to a party in New York, and inevitably the craziest person there is a psychiatrist. I mean the person who is literally doing childish antisocial things, making a fool of himself and embarrassing everyone else...
...country's 40th anniversary. Guest of honor at the speeches and parades will be Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, whose program of reforms has been dismissed as "unnecessary" by the aged, tradition-bound leaders who will be his hosts. If past birthdays are any indication, the East German speakers will proclaim how every day "the superiority of socialist society is clearly demonstrated...
With the Cubbies down by a few runs to the Astros, Chicago slugger Andre Dawson stepped up to the plate. Instead of telling the audience that Dawson could very well hit a home run with the wind blowing out of Wrigley Field, Caray had to proclaim something like, "Come on, Andre, hit one out so we can get back into this ballgame...
That clause appeared to be aimed at Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which have amended their constitutions to proclaim their right to reject national laws. The Kremlin previously said this violated the Soviet Constitution...