Word: verbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rating: [One Khomeini] You'd think the network that brought you the Gulf War could do better. Investigating is too mild a verb; it suggests a medical checkup. The gray border is monochromatic and nondescript, like something stamped on an official document or government-approved meat...
...know, I speak Spanish all day," he says. "I have to think in Spanish from the time I get up in the morning until I go home at night. School Spanish helps you with verb tenses, but field Spanish is an entirely different thing...
...sequel released last month, Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters. He is part of a publishing mini-boom. Jewish Lights, a small house whose star is mystically oriented Reform rabbi and NPR commentator Lawrence Kushner, expects to sell 200,000 books this year. God Is a Verb, a Kabbalistic primer by Rabbi David Cooper, recently tore through three printings in two weeks. Says a publishing spokesman: "Every Jewish book that comes through, whether we buy it or not, people want to append mysticism to it. 'How do we get the Kabbalah audience?' It's kind of becoming...
...Dining hall meals would be patterned after Elvis' favorites in his last years at Graceland, including Fried chicken, Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, Fried pies and Fried frying oil. And, of course, if country music had stayed on in the Northeast, "Yale" would still just be a verb ("I tole Domna Sue to hurry up with them fried pertaters, but 'course she didn't, so I had to yale...
...come into the world fully programmed for grammatical language--permeates Pinker's thinking. In his work, for example, Pinker tries to tease apart how the innate components of the language system interact with experience. "The past tense," he quips, "is my version of the geneticist's fruit fly. A verb is small, it's easy to recombine, and it's a fast breeder...