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HOTTEST KITCHEN APPLIANCE The microwave oven was a profit boon to retailers, and firmly established "microwave" as a verb. No one ever ovened a cake or stoved an egg, but Americans are microwaving with impunity...
This prosaic reality, though, doesn’t translate very well into fiction—especially fast-moving fiction. Hence Professors Langdon and Massey—and hence, eventually, my roommates’ and my Latin verb-declining, kung fu-fighting heroes. There is something strange about propagating a myth that you no longer believe in, especially when it’s more or less about you. But if there’s one thing that Miracle on 34th Street—and, come to think of it, the lukewarm reviews for Ross Douthat’s debut tome?...
...lacks” (verb...
...TIVO (verb) Only 2.3 million subscribe to this digital recording service--but everyone, it seems, is "TiVoing" favorite shows. And probably still Xeroxing...
Style. It’s a noun (“Britney Spears has style”), a verb (“she styles her own hair every day”) and occasionally an adjective (“Girl, you are stylin’ today!”). It’s even a profession (“Miss Spears is with her stylist right now”). Here in Cambridge, the populace is not exactly known for its innovative sense of style. Even the architecture is too old to be hip. But nonetheless, as FM discovered, Harvard Square...