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woman can ride a horse, but it takes a true aristocrat to look like one.”
Sometimes a single phrase can ignite a page. In the Ellery Queen mystery magazine. Bill Pronzini gave readers a vivid image: “I went to the car, sleeving away sweat, and unclipped the .38 . . .” Sleeving away! What a perfect verb!
Robert Tomsho, a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, wrote a piece last October about a tribe of Japanese snow monkeys that had taken up residence in Eilley, Texas. “The animals are brownish, knee-high vegetarians with faces the color of diaper rash." At * some time, just about everyone has seen diaper rash. In that descriptive phrase we saw the monkeys.
A couple of years ago Newsweek had something to say about what it means to be “online” in Cyberland: “In the online world — where people are often known by noms de net rather than their real names — it’s sometimes hard to tell grass roots from AstroTurf.” I liked the seven-iron swing of that sentence. Cadence counts.
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