Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twisters, Negro riots, long shots and closeups of Bobby Baker and Billie Sol Estes-interlaced with shots of a black Lincoln Continental limousine careening madly along country roads, with beer cans being tossed out of the driver's window. The supposed identity of the driver? His initials might rhyme with...
...single idea in seven words or less. "It is a psychological fact," says Harvard's Gordon Allport, "that seven is the normal limit of rote memory." (Example: telephone numbers.) Whether plugging cat food or a candidate, sloganeers lean heavily on such verbal devices as alliteration ("Korea, Communism, Corruption"), rhyme ("All the way with L.B.J."), or a combination of both ("Tippecanoe and Tyler Too").* Other familiar standbys are paradox ("We have nothing to fear but fear itself"), metaphor ("Just the kiss of the hops"), metonymy ("The full dinner pail"), parody (a Norwegian travel folder promises "a Fjord in Your Future...
...which means horned but is not a simple English word. Simple words for "sweetness" and "youth" become "dulcitude" and "juventude" in English (Nabokov excuses himself somewhat abashedly by pointing out that the sense of the couplet-a sneer at moon-June versifying-requires that in this case the words rhyme...
Everyone knows about Adam and Eve. Poets have told the story in rhyme, sculptors in stone. It has been dramatized, analyzed, synthesized and choreographed. But Genesis is hardly chic, and the fashion industry found Women's Wear Daily a more inspiring Bible. Until this month anyway, when Harper's Bazaar had its newest contributing editor take a look at the book. Gloria Guinness is the wife of a British banking tycoon, No. 2 on the Best-Dressed List, and has the sort of detachment that comes from being a woman who does not care what it costs...
...Savage that suggests its composer's grand reputation. The music could have been written any time after 1850, and the libretto could have been improved by almost anyone with 15 minutes and a pencil. "I would look like a fool, I have never been to school" constitutes a rhyme, but it is a rhyme Menotti shares with the composer of a pop song called Stupid Cupid that was big last year...