Word: thesauri
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Americans seem to have an insatiable appetite for reality TV--except when it comes to the Anna Nicole Show. Ratings plummeted after the first episode, and critics dug out their thesauri to find new words for "awful." So, of course, the show has been picked up for a second season. This is because it airs on the cable channel E!, where the standards for a hit are lower. Despite the audience drop, on E! the show still qualifies as a ratings winner. So far, the unintelligible ramblings and aimless meanderings of Anna Nicole Smith have left people agog that...
...chord progressions with precision. But the canned mysticism of the lyrics almost inspires nostalgia for the professional, if dispassionate, songwriting of producer Max Martin and other behind-the-scenes teen-pop studio wizards. "Let's give love to all," Stapp intones on the final track, Lullaby. Let's give thesauri to all songwriters incapable of dreaming up more original ways to voice that sentiment...
...Thesaurus" is a mouthful; it does not roll trippingly on the tongue. Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature. Thesaurus means treasury or storehouse, but nobody calls Nicholas Brady Secretary of the Thesaurus or says, "Dear, pack up your winter underwear and lock it in the thesaurus...
After weeks of delaying actions, false starts, and recounts, Radcliffe literateurs paused last night, carefully eyed their thesauri, and prepared to launch their now properly garbed slick. The entry of Law Student James Pines--Jimmy to the literary world--had emerged from pink, beribboned Annex ballot boxes to win an attenuated contest for naming the embryo literary magazine spawned by Miss Irene Tinker, Radcliffe...
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