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...years ago, S.J. Perelman was barreling down the yellow brick road to L.A., the "mighty citadel which had given the world the double feature, the duplexburger, the motel, the hamfurter, and the shirt worn outside the * pants." Yes, we know, all too well, that "going to California" is tantamount, for many people, to going to seed...
Yalman's use of the word "pansy" is tantamount to saying that an African-American is not an "Uncle Tom", or that a woman is not a "bitch." Maybe these crass analogies will convey to the professor, to his readers and to the editors who allowed his comments to be printed without note, the offensiveness of "pansy" to the gay community...
...official trip unless paid for by a charitable or educational organization. According to an official statement, the federation is a nonprofit trade group engaged in lobbying on "state and federal legislation." For such an organization to pay his wife's expenses, a White House counsel conceded, would be "tantamount to a gift...
Gordon said that sending copies of the letters to all law school students was tantamount to McCarthyism...
...said the fact that the state-run process has only been monitored by state agencies is tantamount to "letting the fox guard the hen house." "We have to be in essence the watch-dog here," he said...