Word: sloganeer
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...Quartet next presented "The Drinking Gourd," the final movement of Marty Ehrlich's String Quartet (1993). According to Ehrlich, the movement gets its name from a slogan of the Underground Railroad, "follow the drinking gourd." At first, it sounds like a syncopated roundance in uneven time. Much of its inspiration appears drawn from the stark landscapes that Barto'k portrayed in his string music. Soon, the cello enters with a jazz vamp, introducing the genre in which Ehrlich is most at home...
...sounds like fun. It is, but it's not what some of you may be thinking (you perverts). Supposedly, the finger term comes from the classic yellow page slogan, "Let your fingers do the walking," referring to the easy method of flipping pages to find someone's phone number. When you finger a person on the 'net (type fingerscyang@fas.harvard.edu for example), you can sometimes discover such information as home and office phone numbers, the last time and location that person logged on, and of course that person's .plan...
...Neither would Bosnians, Rwandans or the homeless people that line the streets of Cambridge. Before we built monuments to ourselves in the sky, we must halt the economic decay of our cities, alleviate human suffering and help our neighbors acquire the basic necessities of life. The pro-Freedom slogan reads: "The Space Station: It's About Life on Earth." Maybe, but dealing with poverty, crime, famine and war are about "life on earth," too. Once we've made some headway with these problems, then we can have the Space Station for dessert...
...People are breaking down the door because they want my ribs," says Venable, whose slogan reads "You need no teeth to eat my meat...
...first summed up political opinion around here, namely that fascism's heavy boots have marched over the backs of Bosnian civilians to steal into Europe, aiding and abetting a new Hitlerism. The second slogan was Sarajevo's own special way of expressing its contempt for the U.N. Boutros-Ghali was probably unaware that these four words dealt the lowest possible blow ever dreamed up by the legendary sports fans of Sarajevo. In former days of glory, die-hard fans used to berate bumbling referees with the same slogan: "The ref isn't a man." One of the referees said later...