Posts Tagged ‘headlines’

WORD GAMES: THERE WILL BE BAD HEADLINES

February 27, 2008

A blogger took issue with “No Country for Young Men,” the headline for my profile of LB novelist David Hernandez. In a Sunday post, Mr. Nice Guy declares it “time to retire the cliche “there will be …” and “no country for …” constructs. they’ve both been done to death.”
I wrote him back, gingerly:
“As the [...]

TOILET PAPER: IT WORKS

December 4, 2007

Press-Telegram finds evidence at convention center
“CHARMIN CLEANS UP AT DOG SHOW”
Headline over a Page A2 story about “Charming, a male Sealyham terrier, [who] won the Best in Show award at the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship on Sunday at the Long Beach Convention Center.”

 

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