European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Basketball stuffs another Slang phrase a in your face William Safire on language basketball the game that brought the general language one on one tossup and full court press has done it again. In a single recent Issue of the new yorker one film critic described a movie As Quot the worst kind of in your face farce another hailed actor a1 Pacino for his a persuasive portrait of a Pesky in your face romantic in the movie Frankie and Johnny and John Updike in a review of two novels praised the a a Slang in your face prose styles in which the narrators a both White women in Africa a discussed their Bowel movements Quot with a frankness new to romantic a what does this expression mean a asks Daniel m. Klein of great Barrington mass. A where have i been and what arc All these things doing in my face Quot intimidating you that a what. Carl Ladensack of Lancaster pa., found the expression in Quot you la never Bat lunch in this town again by Julia Phillips Quot you were ignored but she managed to be in your face at the same he notes a the context and tone suggest something like bold arrogant bothersome or audacious. Is this a new vulgaris that will soon sweep across the Media and like a Nasty slap strike All of us in the face a it May sound like a euphemism for a vulgaris similar to stick it in your ear but the suddenly popular compound adjective in your face has a non vulgar derivation. Richard a. Spears a leading Slan Guist suggests that a it sounds like the reverse of get out of my face which tells somebody to move this locution which seems to be formed on the analogy of get off. My Back soon replaced Back off As the preferred Slang in calling for physical or symbolic withdrawal. The first citation in the dictionary of american regional English is from 1931 a git out of my face or ill slap be into the Middle of next week a dare reports that its use is especially frequent among Black speakers. The allusion is confrontational. Spears observes that a in your face would reverse out of my face to mean a getting in front of people to bother a face like Cheek has Long had a sense of in the 1851 Polly pea blossoms a wedding a collection of stories edited by Thomas a. Burke a character asks a How can you have the face to talk to me Arter saying what you cd a the defiant sense exists in the verb As Well face up to and face Down. The definition of in your face the term now in Vogue was put Forward in 1982 by Tim Considine in his Book the language of sport a aggressively challenging disrespectful or his example was a scored with an in your face slam a slam Dunk As sports fans know is not a method of ingesting Coffee performed vigorously with a doughnut it is a basketball term meaning a a forceful Dunk shot a in which the Ball is dramatically pushed Down or stuffed into the Basket by a leaping player. You done to see Many gentle Dunk shots anymore this is the age of slam thus has outta my face Given Rise to in your face. A was a modifier this phrase has catapulted overnight into the cliche Hall of Fame a writes Allan m. Sie Gal assistant managing editor of the new York times. He also comments a to my car its crude and that a exactly what recommends it for most of the Detroit s Bill Laimbeer Bottom and Atlanta a Duane Ferrell play a in your face basketball. Uses to which its put. Even if the crudeness does no to offend the trite Ness a attained with record Speed a evidence the times editorial about the recent primary election during which Bill Clinton Learned that campaigning Down new York streets could be a character building experience was entitled a the in your face gov. Jerry Brown a times reporter wrote used a headlong rhetoric. Well suited to the in your face style of new York in All the phrase appeared in this newspaper 28 times in a two month period editor Siegalz a complaint about trite Ness May slow it Down. Aggressive assertive militant contentious combative belligerent arrogant a All these words and More Are available to us. Not Pushy enough for you quarrelsome truculent offensive slam Dunk disrespectful trying to shake this Girth but diet is hard to stomach Tony Kornheiser photos from my College reunion came Back the other Day. There has to be some mistake. Everybody else looked just the Way i remembered them but somehow the pictures of me got distorted. From the front in a Pear shaped. 1 look like something you win at a carnival for knocking Over milk bottles. From the Side i look like the third leg of an isosceles Triangle. I should write Fotovat. Something must be wrong with their Developer. Where did that mudslide of a stomach come from what a Lousy Lime in be picked to look like Dorn Cluise. Its almost summer. The Pool is open. I can to risk taking off my shirt the kids will Sec me and think i m Shmu. L luckily i done to have that Turkey skin mute any arms yet but my midsection is a disaster. I sit Down and look like a Shar Pei. Talk about love handles a the entire new York City subway ridership could hang on. I guess it sort of snacked up on me. I was never fat As a kid i was one of those jerks who made fun of the fat kids. I did no to think i was truly fat until these horribly distorted photos arrived. Of id noticed a couple of changes i Button the Collar of my shirts but i assumed it was the laundry putting in too much starch. Then i Button my suit jackets and i said to my wife a can you believe those jerks at the laundry putting starch in suits Quot she made a crack about How id better not buy a Miata because they a have to lower me in with a Crane. It has All come together at 40. My age. My Waist. The amount of pounds Over what it says on my Drivers License. Looking Back i should have paid More attention the night we were watching designing women and i made the comment about what a foxy Little thing Mary to was and the other people in the room said a a we a have thought you a prefer in Honor of my new shape i wrote this song to the tune of i m Henry Viii i am. It goes like this in a fat As a whale i am. Fat As a whale i am i am. I m much fatter than the people next door. I can to fit into my pants no More. And every Day i eat gobs of sweets. Two eclairs a pudding and some Jam. I am infinitely larger than a porpoise. Fat As a whale i am. So in be started running. Well not really running More like creeping. And you know As soon As i started i got Hurt. Unfortunately its not anything sexy like Shin splints my thighs got chafed from All that fat rubbing against itself. My thighs looked like round Steak. In a surprised people did t Stop on the Side of the Road and ladle me with Al sauce. Not that jogging is going to do me any Good because it makes me twice As hungry. I get Home and eat like a pig. In a Down to one meal a Day a but in a eating it from 8 to Midnight. The turn of the Century those were the Good old Days. If a Man had an ample gut then it meant he was prosperous. Girth was a sign of accomplishment. William Howard Taft was elected president All 300 pounds of him. Today he even fit inside the voting Booth. I guess ill go on a diet though my wife does no to Trust me when i say that. In be gone on diets before and never even made it through one Day. My idea of a diet is i eat with a Small Fork Shell bring Home Rice cakes and ill slather them with Peanut butter and Jelly. A a you re supposed to eat them Plain a Shell say a Gandhi eat these Plain a ill answer. My former Best Friend Mike recently went on the Ultra slim fast diet where you drink a couple of milkshakes and then eat one a a modest meal a night. A a there san honest difference of opinion Over the definition of a modest a a Mike told me. A my a modest is i Stop after four Rolls and one dessert. Their a a modest is 300 calories which is somewhere Between three leaves of Romaine lettuce and one lick of Ben amp Jerry a White chocolate chunk. They claim you la feel full on their food. I done to. In a living on Mike is my former Best Friend because he has lost 13 pounds on this diet and will soon blow away in a High wind. My Only Joy comes when i ask How he feels and he says a extremely but i am committed to trying this diet. Already in be begun experimenting with the milkshakes i have them for dessert. Creators Syndicate a it 2\ nday May 31. I Jyh
