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hens and the editor were laying eggs.
Another example appeared last month in The Wall Street Journal in a story about rising prices for gold: “The price of the gleaming commodity has leaped nearly 12 percent,.-.” Never mind the gleaming commodity! Give us the facts.
This is a little dog trick that often proves effective: End a paragraph or an article with an accented syllablp. Notice how effectively The Wall Street Journal used the device two years ago in an editorial on the confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas: [
“In the space of about five days, the American people learned a lot about their government and probably about themselves. We’ll find opt tonight how many of the nation’s 100 senator learned anything at all.” .
Wham! Bang! Zowie! There wps a perfect paragraph. Let me contrast it with an article in The New York Times last month on Prozac, the feel-good drug, and the need to replace artificially stimulated bonhomie in a less driven society: “And while we await that unlikely spiritual transformation, now and then we have a right to feel a little gloomy.” ,
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