Word: pronoun
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Plenty of lobbyists kill time in the House cafeteria as they wait to see members of Congress. Like Riki Wilchins, they may peruse USA Today over egg salad. But few--O.K., none--have turned to a reporter between bites and said, "What pronoun will you use for me? I prefer s/he...
...goes to..." rather than "The winner is...": "God forbid anybody should think of this as a competition. It might make the trade ads seem crass"). But Martin is thoroughly L.A. at heart, and he kept the crowd safely on his side with liberal name-dropping and use of the pronoun "we." He probably didn't guarantee himself an invite back with his competent, often funny job; but worse for him, he didn't guarantee that he'd never be asked back, either...
...Lennon apart from McCartney in terms of style. Lennon was a diarist , while McCartney was a dramatist. Many followed Lennon into the new world of singer/songwriter-dom. But few matched his poetry or honesty. For Lennon, confessional songwriting was much more than just the prominent use of the first-person pronoun, which seemed to become the norm in the self-obsessed...
...writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur. Nothing, for now, can compete with experience--so unanswerably authentic, and so liberally and democratically dispensed." Thus the modern appeal of the real: journalists pepper their reports with the pronoun I; historians focus on the lives of ordinary people rather than those of their rulers; and many literary scholars set aside the classics to study first-person testimonials of peasants and slaves...
...AWOL chasers 24. For the first time, blacks participated in the Battle of Blakeley re-enactment here 27. Congressman who may challenge Giuliani for the nomination 30. Its realistic roach resulted in some broken TVs 31. Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister, who has been jailed for life 33. Ship pronoun 34. Listen in on, in a way 35. Earth-friendly prefix 37. Wile E. Coyote's supply company 41. Lipton competitor 44. Divining device 45. Judge who's no friend of 4-Across 48. Syrian Foreign Minister __, who distanced himself from the idea of sending troops to south Lebanon 50. Hurting...