Word: swelled
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...guide to good usage or a & dictionary, though it is a necessary complement to both. Despite its peculiar shortcomings, it remains a sterling reference tool and deserves a bravo!, bravissimo!, well done!, ole! (Sp), bene! (Ital), hear, hear!, aha!; hurrah!; good!, fine!, excellent!, whizzo! (Brit), great!, beautiful!, swell!, good for you!, good enough!, not bad!, now you're talking!; way to go, attaboy!, attababy!, attagirl!, attagal!, good boy!, good girl!; that's the idea!, that's the ticket!; encore!, bis!, take a bow!, three cheers!, one cheer more!, congratulations...
...punches with his caricatures; both black and white concepts of race are adeptly, savagely satirized. He gets in especially sharp jabs at Black nationalism with his screeching Uncle H. Rap Remus, a preacher who leads his congregation in chanting, "All whyte people pitch over and die now!..Puke blood! Swell up! Turn purple...
Take the case of federal regulation. Conservatives savage the president for presiding over one of the greatest increases in governmental regulation ever during his watch. A Heritage Foundation study last month flayed Bush for allowing the amount of money spent annually on administering regulatory programs to swell from $9.6 billion in 1988 to $11.3 billion today...
...witch routine -- you can have a good, mean time at this movie, in synch with the cartoonish comedy (Meryl tumbling down a staircase that has about 359 steps) and elaborate special effects (Is that a hole in Goldie's stomach or has she really slimmed down?). All this is swell. Farce, after all, should never be politically correct...
Paul Brock, the hero of Avery Corman's THE BIG HYPE (Simon & Schuster; $19), is a low-profile writer and family man transformed by a Manhattan show- business promoter into a national phenomenon. The money is swell, but Brock wants to cling to his artistic integrity as if it were an old sports jacket. Corman (Oh, God!) has a light comic touch that allows Brock to have it both ways and remain an appealing character. A bit of fantasy is also disarming. Corman works in guest appearances by film and literary stars, including the reclusive J.D. Salinger, who says, "Sometime...