metrosexual
in a consumerist world, heterosexual men had no future. So they were replaced
by the metrosexual. Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high disposable
income, living or working in the city. Metrosexual man is a commodity fetishist,
a collector of fantasies about the male sold to him by advertising. Metrosexual
man might prefer women, he might prefer men but nothing comes between him and
his reflection.
telefonino
Then his telefonino rang, or rather squeaked piercingly. It is almost
impossible to get away from the wretched telefonino wherever you are in Italy.
Of all the countries in Europe, only Britain has more mobile telephones
mafunfunyana
blacks have got magics and most white people don't believe it. I know it from
my mother. It is called mafunfunyana.
phreaker
Inside the world of the phreaker: Using a screen and a phone, they break into
computer systems across the world. The phreaker is an anarchic brand of computer
hacker. He is very good with computers, but principally obsessed with exploiting
telephone networks The phreaker is a very sociable hacker, and spends a lot of
time talking to other people through electronic messages
monospace
In addition, more competitors have entered the narrow market for monospace
vehicles
non-recoupable
his non-recoupable benefits were replaced by benefits recoupable because they
were paid in consequence of the accident
toad-racing
Wildworld, holds toad-racing twice a day. There are even moves to give the
sport a more formal footing.
job-shy
Secretary of State for Social Security, said that the planned allowance
should 'help the jobseeker and motivate the job-shy'
metrosexuality
The promotion of metrosexuality was left to the men's style press, magazines
such as The Face, GQ, Esquire, Arena and FHM,
presenteeism
And the national disease is no longer absenteeism but - to borrow, with
regret, a recently coined phrase - 'presenteeism' they're suffering from
presenteeism - people who remain after a redundancy, who an organisation feels
should be really jo lly that they've retained their job, but who, first, are
overworked, becausethere are fewer people, and second, are job-insecure.
v-mail
In California, the Pacific Bell telephone company says it already has a
million v-mail users;
consociativismo
It will mark the definitive break with the post- war notion of
consociativismo, under which government and opposition often submerged their
differences to serve the collective interests of the political class.
culture-happy
The culture-happy class buys the latest and smartest book, painting - or
personality, for they are often patrons.
fear-factor
'Because of the fear-factor women just won't use them. their erstwhile
supporters are no longer afraid of Labour. This fear-factor has played a
significant part in keeping the Tories in power
groundhoppers
Non-League groundhoppers are - by and large - as fine a group of men as ever
consulted a railway timetable
hypercompetition
The school's Richard D'Aveni coined the term 'hypercompetition', saying
today's outrageous pace of change calls for upside-down business approaches
Chivalry is dead,' he writes in Hypercompetition: Managing the Dynamics of
Strategic Manoeuvring.
spamming
The scatter-gun approach of sending messages to large numbers of newsgroups
is known as 'spamming', and is considered one of the most serious breaches of
netiquette
best-by-end-see-lid
The word 'lid' should be used only metaphorically in the new expression we
are trying to popularise, 'best-by-end-see-lid When someone in the Government is
approaching his sack-by date, we tend to say: 'He's getting a bit
best-by-end-see-lid I see.
blackberryness
Clare Valley, pounds 5.75, a strapping Australian red whose delicious
blackberryness melts in the mouth
chipotle
Chipotle. Dried and smoked form of the Jalapeo. Smoky, nutty, most adaptable
of all dried chillies
dendromania
For the Christmas tree is but the most prominent aspect of our dendromania,
do-littlers
But, as the U-turn on Post Office privatisation showed, the do-littlers have
won.
edge-city
The 'edge-city' phenomenon, nurtured in the United States, has already
reached Britain. Town centres merge into suburbs that merge into edge-city
strips of shopping malls, business parks, retail warehouses and executive cul-
de-sacs.
gadgey
The Paisley expression for 'cool, good' is 'really gadgey'.
gigachip
It looks as if Intel's position in the personal computer market is safe until
the turn of the century, when 'gigachip' technologies reach the market.
homo-desire
That the loving father is one of the drag queens is rather adventurous, but
the fact remains that homo-desire in this film is sublimated into outrageous
frocks and an ache for acceptance by heterosexuals
loss-hit
The market's solvency is being undermined by the difficulty it is having
persuading loss-hit names to cough up.
maniser
the penny dropped and I realised he really meant a maniser, as in the female
version of a womaniser.
mega-pub
In the process, many more town pubs could be turned into restaurants or
leisure centres, while their rural counterparts face the threat ofa new breed of
mega-pub Solicitors acting for seven landlords objecting to a new Whitbread
Beefeater mega-pub near Chipping Sodbury waved an article
rape-conducive
ANYONE wanting to avoid getting trapped in a rape-conducive environment would
do well to read Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf's Sex and Dating
re-mythologisation
The re-mythologisation of Christmas (a part of the wider process of re-mythologising
Christianity itself) involves what one of its American proponents has described
as a 'recalibration of perceptions'.
recloning
They were replacing them with barcodes from computers which had been already
stolen. They were recloning them semi-contact 2 Kick-boxing is a semi-contact
sport; points are scored for accuracy rather than damage inflicted.
series-saving
Courtney Walsh led a substantially under-strength team - lacking Richie
Richardson Desmond Haynes, Winston Benjamin and Curtly Ambrose - to a
series-saving victory over India.
shin-padded
All it needs is for his shin-padded legs to be smeared liberally with
Haagen-Dazs ice cream
show-boating
He brought the show-boating side of Louis Armstrong to the music
skeleton-print
What hero would brave the fire for a Brunnhilde in a skeleton-print
body-stocking and a gym skirt? Not me.
skillz
Television networks in the feature local legends of the game, together with
basketball street slang, trash talking being as much a prized among basketball 'skillz'
as a good jump shot
slalomer
Ingemar Stenmark might have been a better slalomer, but he did not have
Girardelli's range
super-hypeway
This is just part of the reason why it is tempting to call it the information
super-hypeway Could we be on the super-hypeway to nowhere?: Will the information
revolution really change our lives?
tiger-consuming
the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are now attacking the roots of the
problem, putting pressure on tiger-consuming countries to eliminate the trade
within their borders.
tyre-kicker
I have yet to find a better area in London for the committed tyre-kicker
videocratic
The last few months have shown not how ready the Italians are for a
benevolent and videocratic dictatorship,
viewshed
One of the more useful tricks of GIS is 'viewshed analysis', which is the
precise measurement of the visibility of ancient monuments in the landscape
waitperson
when you say thank you to an American waitperson, they say, 'You're welcome'.
waterspace
There is close co-operation, too, in the area of 'waterspace management'
whip-lust
His 'whip-lust' was, it seems, reciprocated by his long-suffering wife.
xerocracy
the concept of 'xerocracy' - which means that anybody who can be bothered to
pick a time and have the fliers Xeroxed is in charge. Xerocracy is a wonderful
concept: political will reduced to whoever fancies doing the photocopying.
a-goggle
till, the bit in the ad where the guitars go ker-smash and the Puritan girl
behind the tree stands a-goggle at the slow Excaliburisation of a male torso
from silken water is a shining moment in the history of rock's interface with
commerce .
a-hipping
Keep a city a-hipping and a-hopping all night long, and - goodness, says
Nanny - everyone will be sozzled by morning.
a-hopping
see a-hipping
a-rippling
Bassey chassis sashayed along the lip of the stage, timpani sound-tracking
her hip roll, the tassels on her dress a-rippling with suggestive tease.
a-wagging
Calendar girl Christy Turlington (images of whom are also available at
Fashion Exposures missed the spring/summer 1995 fashion season in Milan, London,
Paris and New York - setting tongues a-wagging.
abracadabrant
Nicolas Bazire, head of Mr Balladur's office, described the reports as 'abracadabrant',
literally 'abracadabra-ing'.
abso-bloody-lutely
Looking for the word that means chopping one word in two and inserting
another in the middle, as in abso-bloody-lutely, I had no joy with cut* AND
word,
accidental-seeming
Manet's cropped and often almost accidental-seeming habits of composition
acousticisation
Rod Stewart is probably the dinosaur who profits most from acousticisation,
while REM's 'Half a World Away' is replete with grace and emotion.
adaptationist
There is a similarity here to the hard adaptationist school in Darwinian
theory, which recoils from the idea that sometimes things just happen,
advisorships
Dennis Skinner, Labour MP for Bolsover, said there were 550 directorships
consultancies and advisorships, mainly held by Tory MPs.
aero-medic
He buys some from corner shops on his patient round, others from countries he
visits as an aero-medic to accompany home sick or injured British holidaymakers
As
agendaed
The affair was discussed at a committee meeting in Cardiff on Thursday, but
when only three of 17 agendaed items had been completed in nearly seven hours
members gave up
aid-for-trade
Nigerian tank deal raises questions on aid-for-trade
air-cruise
Tailor Made Travel also offers a seven-day air-cruise around Australia
airline-speak
'reserve beyond capacity', airline-speak for selling seats they do not have
airometers
RJ Pickles suggests a per capita charge on cubic metres of air consumption
Tiny airometers could be inserted into the trachea soon after birth
aisle-browsing
Something that would save me from the hours of agonising aisle-browsing it
now takes to buy a moisture cream,
alien-ness
she has no choice about whether she is personally challenged: 'I am, all the
time, by having children who refuse to stop challenging; by relationships across
colour; by the feeling of alien-ness
aluminium-intensive
The new generation of aluminium-intensive vehicles recently announced by
Alcan and Ford is an important breakthrough
amazingness
For sheer political amazingness nothing beats what happened on 8 November
ambient-ethnic
'Coyote Dance' and 'Akua Tuta' cleave more to the Gabriel / Lanois
ambient-ethnic aesthetic
ampled-shouldered
He sat down behind a desk, fiddling with a pencil, staring at the assembled
audience of writers, photographers and his ampled-shouldered security entourage,
anarcho-capitalist
The point is that without order and stability, sustained development was not
possible In anarcho-capitalist states, these conditions do not yet hold and are
having to be created.
anarcho-capitalists
Likewise, anarcho-individualists and anarcho-capitalists are generally
contemptuous of demonstrations and acts of public diso
anarcho-traditionalist
Francois Hadji-Lazaro, the shaven-headed anarcho-traditionalist leader of the
group Pigalle.
animal-vote
They see the logic in South Africa's argument, but worry about the impact on
the animal-vote, back home, if they are seen to support it.
anoraking
The blurb came accompanied by a picture of Lord Mackay of Clashfern,
anoraking away at his lap-top accessing some of the information available to
those prepared to part with 500 pounds for the disk
anoraky
in the television series the rather anoraky League is merely a pretext for
making a net-load of jokes about football
aromatology
'Aromatology is what they are concerned about. It is a whole new branch of
chemistry, a new science if you like. Essential oils have been shown to have a
wide range of effects:
art-hungry
the Sunday Sport duly informed its art-hungry readers of four luscious
lovelies who get their kit off.
arty-glutton
white labels over arty black and white stills of red cabbage, coffee beans
puddle pools, deserts, sea shells and other arty-glutton metaphors
automobile-abiding
the system is that owners can control who enters it. What happens out there
has nothing to do with respectable, automobile-abiding citizens
avant-lit
But you can have one without the other and if, like me, you view your
evenings more as avant-lit rather than apres-ski, there is a lot to be said for
St Christoph.
avant-rub-a-dub
trombone diva Annie Whitehead fronts up an avant-rub-a-dub session with her
estimable trailmates
baggier-than-thou
The boys who hand out the skis swear unimaginatively at each other and slowly
strut about in their baggier-than-thou trousers.
baggism
This wide boy boasts that John and Yoko Lennon are about to arrive in a bag,
this being the peak philosophical moment of baggism
banner-unfurlers
Moreover, the banner-unfurlers are only one side of a pincer movement, the
other being the people,
barely-plumbed
Richard Dawkins has written a hymn to the barely-plumbed wonders of DNA
battery-consciousness
Roy found time to talk to me about what he calls low battery-consciousness.
'People find it very diffficult to talk about batteries,' said Roy.
beat-poetish
There's a still star-struck Bono for one, waxing beat-poetish over his brush
with Frank Sinatra.
beatability
the Murphys Noel and Gerry, may not be bitter about the unspoken Welsh
perception of their team's beatability but in any event, apart from Jenkins's 24
points and the Davies try, they did not see a great deal
belt-bomb
Mr Ghazali was accused of planning to assassinate Mr Bush with a belt-bomb
strapped to his waist
bimboid
it must show two uncompromising fingers to the glib cynicism of
post-Modernism, a bimboid handmaiden of sensational news coverage if ever there
was one
binge-shopping
I think I can't afford not to buy them. So I have binge-shopping sprees.
bio-scare
The Crazies is a fairly chilling 1973 bio-scare picture with a Pennsylvania
town hit by a plague.
biorecords 2
His 'biorecords' related individual characters to their stratigraphic context
showing how much critical information is lost when only species descriptions are
employed
Blairites 5
He may need only a few Blairites: after all Mrs Thatcher got by with precious
few Thatcherites.
bleeding-eared
Something for everyone then, unless you're a bleeding-eared Napalm Death
fanatic with no friends
blood-thirstiness
'I remember listening with him to a certain Northern balladeer warbling
anthems of a quite ferocious blood-thirstiness.
blunderbuss-wielding
The agent of his removal however, was not a blunderbuss-wielding relic of the
Raj, but the television company
bobby-blonde
All have high cheekbones, bobby-blonde hair, teeth that betray years of
adolescent misery,
body-condom
a jolly woman in a nurse's outfit arrived with a frogman in body-condom
sprouting alarming pipes and breathing apparatus
body-snatched
To sleep, perchance to be body-snatched
boer-in-a-bakkie
He concentrates on the extremes, the comtsotsis of the townships and the
ragged boer-in-a-bakkie (truck) of the white right.
boink
Fancy a boink?: Making the first move in person can be difficult, so people
are turning to their computers.
bombas
Some show the full array of ludicrous bombas - crowns, windmills, globes,
turrets, palms, even a jaunty snowman with his hands in his pockets.
born-against
Then he contacted his son, who, unbeknown to him, had become a born-against
Christian.
boss-conscious
We were all subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but it never
occurred to me to be boss-conscious
bouncer-related
The list of bouncer-related assaults on the night-club-going public has
reached legendary proportions: everyone claims either to have been, or seen
someone else roughed
bountificence
Having experienced the bountificence of Czech hospitality (in various
permutations of pork and carp), I felt duty-bound to oblige
boxercise
You like the sound of boxercise - duffing up an electronic punchbag.
brain-gain 2
Within the last two years, this postgraduate medical school has attracted
substantially more world-class scientists from as far afield as Australia and
the United States than we have lost: brain-gain, rather than brain-drain
breath-exchange
At this vulnerable time, babies need stimulation through contact, stroking,
sound and breath-exchange - all of which helps them to keep themselves alive.
bricktastic
Also there's a feature on Berlin as the music capital of Europe: you know,
Bowie, Cabaret Kurt Weill, Pink Floyd's bricktastic The Wall concert.
busybodyism
The biographer is a burglar rifling through drawers, driven by voyeurism and
busybodyism, and seeking stolen goods.
button-phobia
As she has button-phobia, I am praying, as is her mum, that they burst forth
like a self-inflatable pair of dinghies to avoid the 'button' stage
bypass-born
Those clean, well-lit, air-conditioned, classless temples to consumption
those bypass-born, folksy-brick structures with hi-tech innards, those odourless
grocers, except when the bakery wafts its programmed smells through them:
candleholic
Lesley, 31, is a self-confessed 'candleholic' who regularly frequents church
suppliers
candlemania
Ms Spear, however, is unconvinced that candlemania is a Nineties phenomenon
chesstivities
Euston Road, London, is having an open day tomorrow, with simultaneous
display, talks, and Christmas chesstivities
cinematicise
Here he shows the same ability to condense and cinematicise a complex
narrative
cinephiliac
we end up spending two hours in concentrated cinephiliac chat
clanning
The buzz word of the moment is clanning (try it on for size c-l-a-n-n-i-n-g).
It means upscale urban types will be banding together in protected estates and
being very New Agey while the proles on the other side of the high security gaze
on enviously
clansmanship
It begins with his gritty documentation of clansmanship and tribal warfare
among East End skinheads
cling-factor
(nothing would persuade me to take off my thigh-length jumper and reveal the
cling-factor around belly and hips
clone-close
the object of the exercise is to get clone-close to the author-approved
performance
clone-competitor
the walls of the London Underground with the message 'The Ultimate Gift of
Christmas Peace', and it has spawned a clone-competitor from a rival record
company with the same name and more or less the same cover design,
coats-down
He was a Londoner, a Fulhamite in fact, who remembers spending 'a wonderfully
free childhood', all coats-down in the local park and dreams of being Johnny
Hayne
de-cobwebber
They go on to suggest, among other things, a Medusa wig for fancy dress
parties, connected to a hose as a lawn-sprinkler, and the octopus-on-a-stick as
a ceiling de- cobwebber cum chandelier bulb replacer
codpieced
the brutal, codpieced Clockwork Orange-style gangs who strut their stuff in a
gym that looks like a bleak concrete underpass
comfort-addicted
In this risk-averse, comfort-addicted age, when too many people's sole idea
of fun is watching television, only alleviated by a little jogging, we need
comfort-zone
Faust is certainly confrontational, and the antithesis of the comfort-zone
approach
comfy-sofacom
the monsters of sitcom have made a mockery of the nice guys of comfy-sofacom
complacency-jolting
All the same, it's hard to resist seeing in that image of a resurrected Aaron
a complacency-jolting symbol of the fact that while evil may go into abeyance it
can never be eradicated.
complected
UN diplomats are scrawny fellows, scrawny in a paunchy fashion, also
whey-faced no matter how darkly complected.
comprehensivists
the sort of elementary factor that the Brookings comprehensivists
consistently overlooked.
computery
The Old Crown is a beautifully decorated old pub, handy for the British
Museum and all the computery shops on the Tottenham Court Road
conflagrationary
This defence of the indefensible indicates that tonight Neath will give as
good as they get; hence the conflagrationary potential
consonantless-free
They shout, gurgle and gobble in a largely consonantless-free stream of noisy
and incomprehensible diphthongs,
conspiracy-a-thon
Between the Lines from the classiest, sharpest, most convincing police drama
ever produced in this country into a conspiracy-a-thon, a 10-week parade of
silly, contorted plots
control-freakdom
Beckett, first through the control-freakdom of his stage directions and now
through the watchdogs of his estate, endeavoured to opt out of this process,
convenienced
Etchers are convenienced by the fact that printing re-reverses the image
cool-o-meter
Cameos from Peter Fonda and Jack Eraserhead Nance, meanwhile, are just
attempts to score highly on the cool-o-meter.
copylions
And don't forget the wit or the hooks. Copycats? No, copylions
corpsicle
the idea is that by the time technology has advanced enough to defrost the
frozen body (or 'corpsicle' to borrow a term from the science-fiction writer
Larry Niven),
counter-evasion
Of that, pounds 1.6 bn came from counter-evasion and avoidance, and the rest
from 'technical review work'.
country-flavoured
Adam Faith doesn't try to turn the song into something that it's not, but
still his country-flavoured version is a template of disaster Midnight Postcards
cyberbrothel
John Patrick, head of IBM's internet services, says the cyberbrothel is the
latest in a rising tide of sex-related sites on the Net.
daredevilishness
flying down a rope from the top of Blackpool Tower, wing- walking from London
to Paris, paragliding under nine London bridges The daredevilishness he shared
with John Noakes was combined with an all round talent in the old-fashioned
showbiz disciplines
de-legitimise
A government presided over by the owner of a huge business group, which is
under legal investigation, wanted to incriminate the judges examining the
group's affairs. It tried to de-legitimise them before they could conclude their
investigations.
de-sex
Hence Muslim women's motivation for wearing the hejab - to feel connected to
their religious roots, to de-sex themselves in order to be taken seriously to
avoid being molested - is being thwarted
defender-cum-midfielder
The former Tottenham player is a defender-cum-midfielder.
dento-phobia
According to Mr Jerome, dento-phobia is caused by the patient's dread of
losing control in hostile surroundings.
detumesced
When soul went priapic Sledge's career as a tearful balladeer detumesced
dial-a-bus
One practical step might be the resumption of shop deliveries, as in America,
and provision of dial-a-bus systems for old age pensioners to cover visits to
doctors, hospitals and the collection of prescriptions.
digruntlement
the game Moon's sympathy will be music to the ears of Kitch Christie, the
Springbok coach, whose digruntlement at the turn of the post-match questions and
answers was evident.
disinhibitor
It is an effective disinhibitor made with a double shot of vodka, limes,
sugar and honey.
easy-pleasy
Everywhere art is being made easy, too easy, easy-pleasy
ecogladiatorial
The mode is autobiography cum novel cum courtroom drama cum ecogladiatorial
contest cum catharsis.
econotosh
Journalists, who are on the receiving end of a ton of econotosh a day, will
be surprised to learn that 'there's still a dearth of really topflight
professional economists in the City'.
eroticisation
The eroticisation of purity has always been part of the Western cultural
tradition;
face-time
Dual-career family dads, according to the Loyola study, put in four per cent
less 'face-time' per week, and are perceived as less dedicated to the job,
suspected of divided loyalties feel-goodism 1 described Mutant Message Down
Under as 'a book about spiritless, white middle-class mid-life-crisis
feel-goodism. It belongs to a cynical tradition in Western publishing that
profits from a readership that thirsts for books offering a balm to millennial
fears'
fightoholic
I sound like some old Calvinist preacher, don't I?' Which is an improvement
on sounding like Viz's Geordie fightoholic, Biffa Bacon.
filamented
The best, if you can get it, is filamented white paper (the sheeny, glossy
kind).
firepot
a Chinese or Mongolian firepot where each ingredient is cooked in boiling
broth in the centre of the table and is then dipped in a sauce just before
eating
firm-riding
Nissan regards the 200 SX as more of a refined grand tourer than a
hard-charging, firm-riding sports car.
fizz-bang
What The Ruin of Kasch is really about is anyone's guess; it reflects an
Italian taste for showy intellectual fizz-bang.
folksy-brick
Those clean, well-lit, air-conditioned, classless temples to consumption
those bypass-born, folksy-brick structures with hi-tech innards, those odourless
grocers,
fondant-pale
The fondant-pale layers of chiffon and tulle dazzled the eye,
food-over
Today, however, he is complaining of a food-over. 'It is like a hangover but
worse.'
football-shirted
they offered us Derek Pringle sheep-shearing and acres of spectators' flesh
both female (mainly undraped, thin and silent) and male (football-shirted, fat
and chanting).
footful
If you are not sure of the recipient's favourite whisky, a footful of
miniatures can offer a style for every toe.
freshest-minted
none but the freshest-minted coins would do
fridge-cruising
I make it up in big batches for my lunch during the week and to satisfy
post-school fridge-cruising.
ganglingly
At the start McDermott's ganglingly impulsive, shock-haired Dougie, already
dead and hazy about the circumstances of his demise like someone slowly coming
round
gayist
I think it might have been even better with gay actors, but that's a very
gayist point of view, isn't it
gender-inclusive
The Oxford University Press's new 'gender-inclusive' Bible, designed to be
inoffensive enough to appeal even to the Americans - that most shy and sensitive
of nations - has managed to offend everyone else. The sticking point has been
its references to 'Father-Mother' God,
get-up-and-goery
Giant Steps, full of homespun stoicism, dollops of New Ageism, and lashings
of good old-fashioned get-up-and-goery
goal-shyness
Spurs had gone ahead through Teddy Sheringham, who provided some relief for
Ardiles by overcoming his goal-shyness.
goonery
Books can get a bit serious so throw in 'Griff' and his convivial goonery to
jolly it up.
guyhood
This book conforms to all my guidelines: it purports to celebrate 'guyhood
with chapters entitled 'Women Are People, Too' and 'Men's Zones', and is packed
with observations about sex, tools, wives, and - his favourite theme the male
organ,
gustateur
White devoted to honing his skills as a wonderful raconteur and gustateur.
hagiopic
this is a biopic (verging on hagiopic) of the rodeo star Lane Frost
healathon
Apparently, next Saturday night the National Federation of Spiritual Healers
is doing a 'healathon Anybody, anywhere, who wishes to benefit from this can do
so by relaxing quietly for five minutes . . .
heterogenised
Even a world divided into theoretically homogeneous ethnic territories by
genocide, mass expulsion and 'ethnic cleansing' was inevitably heterogenised
again by mass movements of people and styles and by the tentacles of the global
economy
hindhearing
Perhaps it's hindsight, or hindhearing, but the tune sounds as if it were
dictated by the words in more than the literal sense.
hintedly
Impossible to omit would be a death, hintedly from Aids that makes Ali
McGraw's genteel passing in Love Story seem like a video nasty
historicises
New Historicism - a movement that radically historicises literature, placing
it within a political, social and economic context
homage-cum-rip-off
FFM points out that Fulci's Don't Look Now homage-cum-rip-off, The Psychic
brought him to a wide audience
inevitabilist
Britain's future lies in the centre of Europe have to argue our case now. The
inevitabilist case for European integration is in tatters
inter-vasion
Dr Leary - who has now embraced the Internet global computer network as a
platform for his views - said: 'I have waited all my life for this moment. This
is not just an invasion it's an inter-vasion I dedicate this event to Marshall
McLuhan (the Sixties media guru) - the world is now truly a global village,' he
said.
juggernautful
Or is it simply that after living for a dozen years with a government that
invites scorn by the juggernautful, and seems totally unaffected by it, we no
longer believe in the efficacy of scorn
laptop-battering
But having electrified the laptop-battering classes, and perhaps the nation
too, Tony Blair has to expand and nourish this optimism in the years before the
election comes.
lecturettes
takes us on a guided tour of his mind in a series of lecturettes and
info-packs, lamenting the crassness of modern times.
linkperson
In 40 years of autumnal viewing, I can recall no single newsreader, current
affairs presenter, weather-forecaster or linkperson who did not, right on cue,
don a poppy.
lipoplasty
'For lipoplasty, known also as body-contouring, dial 423' said a genteel
voice from the clinic's answering machine,
lumberjacked
People who are otherwise law-abiding educated and paid-up members of society
will be quite prepared to ignore the democratic process, to defy the
representatives of law and order, in order to save some blighted specimen from
being lumberjacked.
magazine-in-utero
Ralph Lauren's magazine-in-utero remains 'in development'
magpied
his poetry reveals a range of learning that takes in classical scholarship
and insights magpied on his walking tours
mall-rat
she's as much of a Bill-and-Ted-head as any American mall-rat. Apparently she
hates Santa Claus, but loves Father Christmas.
mid-grey-nothing-in-particularness
the Tory conference suddenly revealed two new suits for John Major, quite
opposed to his past reputation for mid-grey-nothing-in-particularness.
midibus 2
Services have been revised through a series of area planning reviews (on a
far more systematic basis than the trial-and-error method found elsewhere)
extensive market research, and higherfrequency midibus services
movie-ese
He could learn lines overnight; even when he forgot them, he spoke naturally
in movie-ese.
multi-squillionaires
Here you have Rolls-Royces dropping off multi-squillionaires at the Waldorf,
across the road from people in cardboard boxes
quangoisation
It was the culmination of 12 months of commercialisation and quangoisation.
questions-for-cash
JOHN MAJOR faced further embarrassment over his promised onslaught on sleaze
yesterday as Labour MPs staged a walk-out from the 'questions-for-cash inquiry
restauranted
I arrived in Boston on a Sunday night at a hotel in a part of town not much
restauranted.
trashification
We shouldn't have had the lottery because it is one more step in the
trashification of Britain
two-tierism
But as two-tierism - with its contracts that resulted in doctors treating
less urgent cases ahead of more urgent ones,
winterscape
She was accompanied by a friend who also liked winterscape woollies
workaholicism
The puzzle is why large differences in actual hours worked have failed to
quell American workaholicism and a German love of leisure