European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The process in War and peace William Safire on language e never heard the Long Hoo a threat ening an invasion of Haiti described As a War process. Why not certainly every other procedure and proceed ing All from the latin procedure to go Forward in today s diplomacy has been so expressed. Negotiation is out process is in. We have the peace process now applied mainly to the Middle East. In Peter Rodman s forthcoming be Hind the scenes history of the cold War More pre Cious than peace we have a reference to the negotiating process in Angola As if this longtime Kissinger aide Joes not want to overdo the phrase made famous by his former Boss in 1974. According to another of Henry s helpers Harold Saunders the shorthand expression peace process words wit was chosen then because it encompasses a full Range of political psychological economic Diplo Matic and military actions Woven together into a comprehensive Effort to establish peace Between is Rael and its neighbors.". _ the pull of process is powerful in other disciplines As Well. Shakespearean commentator Helen vend Ler in a recent report to Tho american Academy of arts and sciences observed i processed the son nets differently from most other people in context her use of the verb to process suggests the meaning of putting the information through a mental process or to work it out in your in this sense of putting something through a kind of grinder or mixer it is also possible to process meat and cheese. In processed cheese the food is heated and blended often with other cheeses and flavor Ings in the usage process the de was clipped and we now have process cheese. Those who expect a snapper of an ending to this item using be let Down i did it with a Quill pen. Squad squad report have you Ever matted a foil free 800 number if so you have committed a redundancy All 800 numbers Are toll free. You either make a toll free Call or Call an 800 number not both. Does this mean the Call is for free aha i have just committed a to autism which is a word or phrase intended to be an amusing error that is taken up As accurate by the unwary. The classic example is irregardless a jocular dialect play dating Back to 1912 on irrespective and regardless it s a joke not a word. What Are we to do with a More insidious to Culini for free a couple of years ago when actor Cliff Robertson was the Pitchman for at to which has now dropped its periods in an Effort to expunge the word Telegraph copywriters frequently had him of Fering inducements for the construction is based on a redundancy which i remember from the sos ill give it to you focal or something is either free or for nothing not both. Putting them together was done facetiously not intended to be taken seriously As Stan Dard English but it led in the Early 40s to for free. Ever since Learned a sadists have been pulling chins Over the phrase is it a useful synonymous phrase for the formal without charge i think not. If you mean for nothing or want to slam Home your Point a Tjho at no Cost to you say so. Or if you like the word free use it freely but with out the unneeded for preceding it. Free of Cost is not exactly redundant but you can do without the of Cost same with Cost free. For sheer persuasive Power nothing beats the unadorned free. If you Are impelled to pick up for free in the knowledge that it is a to cubism and May be taken by your listeners to be Standard English which it is not. The usage is Akin to free gift which is rightly a target of the Shock troops of the lexicographic irregulars who Call themselves the squad squad. Its members have already made their Choice for redundancy of the year. When rep. Mel Reynolds of Illinois was about to be charged with having had a sexual relationship with a minor he called a news conference to denounce his accuser As an emotion ally disturbed nut new Yetk times hotel s key to More Cash the minibar Tony Kornheiser ast weekend i took my kids to new York. After the hotel clerk gave me the room keys he attempted to press another key i into my hand the key to the minibar. I backed away like John Bobbin from a cuisinart live in fear of the minibar. R it is a sick seductress. It is the Glenn close of hotel furniture. 7 i know i should t open it i know i Don t really need a tiny foil bag of nine or 10 imported cashews for $-14 where could they be imported from for $14, the third Moon of Jupiter and i know the minibar police will get me. They la Barge into my room at 1 the next morning carrying a clipboard and say housekeeping Here to Check the and i la stand there sheepishly As they pounce on the broken plastic Seal of the minibar As though it were a vital clue like that taped up lock at the watergate then they la gleefully Check off one bag cashews $14," on their Manifest. Only a fool would open the minibar. You can grow cashews for less. But sometime in the Middle of the night every Middle age Man in a hotel room eventually gets up and goes to the a bathroom to pee and b minibar to desperately inspect its contents which will inevitably include belgian chocolate who s to know Yankees won 1978 world series coated with a Dusty whitish powder in dictating it has been lying there since 1973. Some of us Are weaker than others. My pal Mike monster of the minibar raids the minibar while he s wait ing for the room service to arrive so i refuse Thern Nibar key and go cold Turkey _ which by the Way costs $203.50 in the Marriott min Ibar. I and it s not just me i fear for. It s my children it s every Parent s worst Nightmare in a hotel with their kids you la take , and you la awaken and find your kids Glassy eyed on the floor surrounded by empty bags of the world s most expensive potato chips and macadamia nuts and empty Minia Tures of chivas regal and Bailey s Irish Cream was thing on Spectra vision toilet slaves of bang to jct think of the guilt and shame you close your eyes for 20 minutes and your kids Are drunk and corrupted. Far worse you re out 90 Bucks the minibar simply has to be the world s worst Deal for the consumer. It makes 7-Elevcn, where they routinely charge $40 for a Box of pampers look like an outlet mall. I think you ought to be allowed to Sample from the minibar at no Cost maybe one cashew the Way you can Sample the porno movies you can usually watch up to five minutes of something like bulgarian stewardesses without getting charged which is Why i always travel with a Stopwatch. Though i Tell people i m there to cover a track meet my Friend Gino is forever trying to figure out How to fool the minibar police. What if you carefully Slit open lie potato chips bag so you can t Tell it was opened he said acc after you eat the chips you replace some thing Lik Jhc free shoe buffing Lois in the bathroom _ _ _ that could work i said. But with the liquor once you break the Seal on the bottles they la catch you. The other key problem is the room key Pioh Leni. A room key is no longer a key so much Asa stupid slip of plastic. So say Youj Are at the National convention of who drink too much and it is 2 . And you Are ready to go upstairs a bed and you pull out this stupid key and much to your horror you see that it does t have your room number on it no key does anymore for Security Ria sons. But for some reason possibly related to six fio Zei Kahlua Kilimanjaro you have momentarily for gotten your room number. Quad Day do then pal me i Tell the front desk i m a guest in the hold and hold up my key helplessly and ask could you please Tell me which room this key open Sand they look at me like i am a Armnler. So i show them my Wallet will my ids and ask for my room number j and they say you might have stolen that. Wal it too along with the key. If you Are Kornhi Sci you _ know sports. Who won the 1978 world series but after six Kahlua k Ilir ninja Ros i Don t even know who won world War i. So j a look it s late. Here s a credit card. Why Don t Jou give Cine univ _ other room for the night and you can keep the key to the Cion prs 2. 1994 sunday Page 23
