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Anyone who doubts that MICHAEL JACKSON can still influence popular culture should consider this: before last month, the world had never heard the term baby dangling, but since Jackson appeared on a Berlin balcony with his infant son, it has become part of the vernacular. So one wonders how long it will be before impressionable youth start hobbling around on crutches. That is how Jackson arrived last week at a courthouse in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he is being sued for $21 million by a concert promoter who contends that the singer broke his contract by canceling two shows. Jackson...
Losing. It’s hardly part of the everyday vernacular of the everyday Harvard student, not to mention the everyday Harvard student-going-on-U.S.-president. It is something, though, that happens. It happens to at least one out of every two people who run for office. That means that most likely all of these presidents on the rise will one day be losers, if they haven’t endured that title already. And many of them haven?...
...term “H-Bomb” entered the vernacular of the world at large last spring with a “60 Minutes” feature about economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett’s book, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children. The book found a “epidemic of childlessness” among career women and warned a younger generation that if they waited to have children, they might never become mothers...
Bush gives us the best opportunity we've had to do that. But if the 2000 trend continues and we're still getting 8% of the black vote and under 35% of the Hispanic vote, excuse my vernacular, but that ain't good for the party. We just can't sit back and say, "Let everybody fend for themselves...
...Crosby, Sinatra, Torm?, Bennett - takes from Astaire," writes Steve Schwartz on Classical Net. "The male pop singer B.F. (before Fred) sounded something like an Irish tenor. ... The limitations of Astaire's voice forced him to find another way - deceptively casual, never oversold, and at home with the American vernacular. Astaire moved the 'scene' of the singer from the center of the great hall to just across the table, in effect replacing the Minstrel Boy with Ordinary Guy, U.S. version." Whereas Louis Armstrong abstracted a song's lyrics into a plangent growl, Astaire mined their meaning with mediocre vocal equipment...