Posted 10:47 PM by Gene

Today we cringed over "machines for regurgitating press releases." SLIME provides us with an A-1 press release. "[A] sparkling performance that has led to comparisons with Audrey Hepburn...." Here are two JERNALISTIC scourges: the passive construction and the anonymous attribution. "This month Time magazine proclaimed: 'Carey Mulligan: a star is born'." That is DICK "SYNERGY" CORLISS, and citing him is like FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News citing Fatso Moore as a bastion of truth. (It would have made our job easier if SLIME or the TWXSTERS distributed this masterwork -- alas not.) Apparently the M.O. here is to call this Sarah Bernhardt "gamine". Here is how the amateurs at the Wik define it:

Gamine is a French word, the feminine form of gamin, originally meaning urchin, waif or playful, naughty child.

The word was used in English from about the mid 19th century (for example, by Thackeray in 1840 in one of his Parisian sketches), but, in the 20th century, came to be applied in its more modern sense of a slim, often boyish, wide-eyed young woman who is, or is perceived to be, mischievous, teasing or sexually appealing.

We can agree this new sensation -- to our eyes, anyway -- is waiflike.



We cannot, however, resist posting yet another photo of this actress's inspiration. (And we'll even concede she wasn't uniformly photogenic, but in the last one we posted she certainly was.) We don't want to mock ac-TORS for their looks but dammit when SLIMES run press releases, press releases that, like all press releases, exist to deceive and condescend to the turnips they think meekly consume them, we have no choice.

P. S. on 10/21 at 11:11 a. m. Almost forgot -- and much as I don't want to post beauty after beauty...



A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO BEN!