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The silly season.(The media)
In Britain, journalists call August "the silly season" because, with Parliament in recess and its members retired to their constituencies or the grouse moor, political stories tend to be trivial or comical, preferably both. But in America the silly season is every season, at least if there is any story that can be sold, however implausibly, as an expose of the discreditable truths always to be assumed to lie beneath banal appearances. This year the preeminent silly-season story was that of the open microphone in St. Petersburg at the G-8 summit, when President Bush was overheard saying "shit." The Washington Post Style section thought that this excremental expletive was ...
- Commentary: George Pataki is a man for the silly season
- Newspaper article from: Long Island Business News George Marlin August 5, 2009 700+ words
...school) as the "Silly Season." One pol who...woodwork every Silly Season is the attention...former governor of New York, George Pataki...In this year's Silly Season media foray, Pataki...office he fell off New York's radar screen...
- Silly season stories swamped by swelling celebrities in the Sun.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) August 16, 2004 700+ words
...eruption is likely to devastate New York, Boston, Washington DC and...Celebrity culture has upped the silly season stakes. And while we're...Svengate was tabloid manna for a silly season that is forgetting its roots...very strong symptoms of the Silly Season of 1861 ...
- SILLY SEASON GIVES WAY TO FULL-BORE SOLEMNITY.(Editorial)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) August 16, 1998 700+ words
...British used to call the silly season. It was a time for sightings...the grave. An annual silly season can be spiritually refreshing...As an institution, the silly season is probably all washed...is a columnist with The New York Times. c
- SILLY-SEASON MISCHIEF
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe September 13, 1987 700+ words
...residential election year -- the silly season -- can explain the virtually identical...and its UN observer's office in New York. Opponents of the bills defend...for reelection to the Senate this silly season; he has a feebler political excuse...
- SILLY SEASON.
- Newspaper article from: Mail Today (New Delhi, India) September 5, 2009 700+ words
...considering the biggies will hog cineplex space soon. IT'S the silly season for Bollywood and it comes with an irony. The recent weeks...office space was taken up by the mid-year biggies -- New York, Love Aaj Kal, Kaminey and Kambakkht Ishq. Which left the...
- The end of the silly season. (State Of The Nation).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) Bresler, Robert J. November 1, 2001 700+ words
...determination, vigilance, and self-sacrifice. The spirit of the New York City firefighters, police, and rescue workers should be...have a focus for their rage and purpose for their lives. The silly season is over. A nation that is serious about defending itself...
- Silly Season Turns Off Viewer
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Leonard Shapiro February 18, 1995 700+ words
...celebrities and a handful of big-name sports stars converge in New York for another just-what-we-need awards show. In my mind...Westminster Kennel Club show live from Madison Square Garden in New York. Tell you the truth, it offered some of the best competition...
- New heights for the silly season.(The Uncivil Servant)
- Magazine article from: The Public Manager Grimaldi December 22, 2007 700+ words
...one), Guiliani has been trading on his tenure as mayor of New York largely to be upstaged by his successor, Michael Bloomberg...campaign season is that not only do we have two entrants from New York (and maybe three if you include Mayor Bloomberg, a converted...
