European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday july 2.1987 column fresh new cliches badly needed to brighten up american writing by James j. Kilpatrick the Post brings a delightful letter from Katharine Bicic of Salt Uke City she wishes american writers would s of trying to compound cliches and she offers some splendid examples of a deplorable practice. The los Angeles times by Way of example gave us this Beauty people on Low cholesterol diets might want to avoid jump my Jsn the fish Oil capsule bandwagon experts the associated press found that Loo Many entrepreneurs Are ignoring significant untapped Market Woven throughout the slate s economic fabric miss manners the ultimate arbiter of social behaviour ruled that restrained booing is legitimate at sports event. It is the other Side of the applause my correspondent s collection includes a politician who dangled a Severance pay Carrot before Lowse Nio Rity this was not the same politician who was sticking his political neck out though perhaps he was re lighting a flickering Torch of other legislators turned off the stale s Money faucet and wielded a budgetary Pel projects were getting a fiscal cold shoulder but an influential senator said there May be a Silver lining in the state s no Money the compounding of cliches in this fashion amount to putting a Fedora on a mule. Underneath the hat is the same tired mule. Not All Dichiro Are tedious and tiresome no combination of words beats the Early Bird and the while elephant for he succinct conveyance of an idea but surely our reporters can find fresher ways of put Ling things if they try. Unhappily we Are about to be afflicted with a year of hats in the ring front runners and dark horse candidate who break out of hit presidential pack. We have plenty of old saws old maxims old adages and olo cliches. What we need Are some new cliches. A few weeks ago the National spelling Bee convened in Washington. Some exceptionally attractive youngsters aged 10 through 14, spelled their hearts out the local Media went into raptures Over what a great thing it is to have a spelling Bee. Forgive a dissenting vote. It strikes me As a Onvia ligation of English to Couch these Bright students into spelling such words As Seri cetus per millage Alo ism Belopo copy Wrasse Kar Pas Al Odd Klystron Gal ionic orrery pan Sophy Agio Page ked Shah Menat Guyot Boson and tier. Where do the sponsors Rake up these words the Joun Giter who spends weeks and months drilling away at these arcane specimens would be better off shooting baskets or learning a shortstop s Pivot. My thought is to beat the kids Over the head until they least to spell accommodate millennium and separate. Then Point them toward a pod dictionary and gel Back to business. Speaking of spelling the curmudgeon in me is coming out both a reporter and a headline writer atthe Portland oregonian win a wet Noodle for their treatment of an Oregon gracious the fellow is a playwright. At the St. Petersburg Fla times an admonition is in order that Gary Hart did t Dally with a Beautiful Blond but with a Beautiful blonde. The adjective Blond May be used for both sexes and the noun Blond May be used genetically As in blonds Are highly sensitive to sunburn but if we re talking of a fair haired woman she s a blonde. Every time. Mangles of the week the a rezoned from Melbourne fla., that a con tractor had hired teen aged boys to scrape Asbestos "10 to 12 hours a Day sometimes seven Days a week inside school buildings encased in the makers of Concord watches advertising inthe new yorker Tell a tale of a woman who gave her Lover a Small package lifting the hinged lid of the Case the timepiece was the watch should have been engraved with a legend for All Ages thou shall not Dangle in Chicago the Tribune was onto n terrible Story the death of a 2-year-old Harvey girl was being investigated wednesday As a possible Case of child abuse by police in the South suburb end Illinois department of children and family services officials spokesmen for both agencies another Titbit from Chicago this one from the a dealt with a photographic spread in Playboy featuring a paraplegic a Treu Ellen Stohl she is nearly nude in some of the photos and partly Clad in others it figures. In its travel Section. 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