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 Post subject: Cliche corner
PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 10:30 am 
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Oh, those New Yorkers and other such folk and their colorful silicate minerals. [Times]

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The sight of 30 multicolored horses galloping through Grand Central Terminal would give pause to even the most jaded New Yorker.

Lin, in other words, was getting the superstar treatment from the Knicks and their fans. Here, after all, was one of the more remarkable sports stories in a generation. In a sport which is not usually forgiving to underdogs, an undrafted point guard out of Harvard was lighting up cash registers and scoreboards, and turning even the most jaded New Yorkers into die-hard fans.

The report, which comes on the heels of countless books and Congressional hearings, seems to offers few headline revelations. Still, the narrative in those pages will give pause to even the most jaded observer — including hard-to-forget e-mails, conversations and documents that collectively detail how the credit crisis happened.

One highlight of the weekend was Brown interviewing Bill Clinton, whom she described in 1998 in The New Yorker as “a man in a dinner jacket with more heat than any star in the room . . . his height, his sleekness, his newly cropped, iron-filing hair and the intensity of his blue eyes project a kind of avid inclusiveness that encircles every jaded celebrity he passes. He is vividly in the present tense and dares you to join him there.”

For the folks in Los Angeles, this was just the first half of the yuletide doubleheader, with the Clippers following up with their 14th straight win. They, unlike the Christmas game-jaded Lakers (Metta World Peace, for one, would prefer a little peace) were geeked to make an appearance for the big day, even breaking out hideous Christmas sweaters for the occasion.

In this, the jaded version, Stephen isn't a seer but a charlatan. Enthroned like a little emperor in his donkey cart, he leads the children to disaster.

Designed by Philip Johnson, who is still given a daily corner booth, the restaurant opened on July 21, 1959, with a $4.5 million price tag -- in 1959 dollars -- that shocked even jaded New Yorkers.


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 Post subject: Re: Cliche corner
PostPosted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:23 pm 
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What the hell does any of that mean? I'm serious.


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 Post subject: Re: Cliche corner
PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 9:26 am 
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Dunno. Ask the public editor! [She can ask Phil Corbett.]

Anyway, after the spell-checker is perfected ... and the grammar checker ... and the usage checker ... and the intergalactic conference on plagiarism and fabrication rolls out its infallible Plagiarism and Fabrication Detection Doodad®©,[*] then perhaps the now-unemployed language boffins can get busy building an algorithm to detect and delete throat-clearing.

[*] And that other checker that discourages the writing of sentences longer than 10 words.


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