When I lived in Britain, headline writers used to love to call American YANKS, probably as a throwback to the lingo in use during World War 2. This morning, a New York Daily News headline refers to US troops this way, a sign of creeping influence of Fleet Streetisms into American tabloid practices. While some [...]
For years, the most common usage for the word “Hero” was in connection with a sandwich. Now, it should be printed on our money because its usage has gone into overdrive and has become part of the currency of all conversation and a tool for commercialization. Today’s hero, in the US media primarily, is the [...]
When you look southwards outside of our office into Times Square, there is a subversive billboard right above a sign selling “DYNOTOPIA, ” a saga about an era which may have come and gone, depending on your point of view. A sentiment from the more recent past has the feel of being a dinosour right [...]
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