Word: slating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Screed; the Weekly Standard b) Wart; Martha Stewart Living c) Celebrity Skin; Celebrity Skin d) Slate; Slate...
...slate for the future: the year 2000 problem, Microsoft versus the world and, of course, the continuing saga of RSI. You will also see TechTalk brought to the more dynamic forum of The Crimson Online (www.thecrimson.com...
1850s Prelude What a treat! Small dabs of sugar candy on the end of a slate pencil...
...another way, they are still spinning--for themselves this time. And, as Mickey Kaus pointed out in Slate in January, they're doing it without "a nanosecond of contrition," at least in public, for their former spin on Clinton's behalf. But then consistency is a hobgoblin of the pre-spin mentality. Although the truth about Monica, or something close to it, was forced out of President Clinton, we are still in the golden age of spin. Spin as a metaphor derived from "putting a spin on the ball," and meant putting your own twist on the truth...
...mail circulating around the Net, entitled "My Carreer as Editor of The New Yorker," Slate editor Michael Kinsley says Conde Nast chief Si Newhouse initially asked him to edit the weekly. But in a late-night phone call the magazine mogul retracted the offer, asking Kinsley to say he'd withdrawn his name. Kinsley, a former Crossfire host, at first agreed to keep quiet about the now-you-see-it, now-you-don't almost job, but then, Kinsley writes in his e-mail, "on reflection... I decided I was not inclined to do him the favor of not discussing...