American Heritage has this to say about this ongoing triviality: Writers who use hopefully as a sentence adverb, as in Hopefully the measures will be adopted, should be aware that the usage is unacceptable to many critics, including a

Would you be able to help me with the post directly above your previous post? Venus Williams assured the victory over her exhausted opponent, who slumped to the ground, unable to attempt a return . 2)The students ran out of the

You are correct, CJ: "surface road" is, for lack of a better term, a coined opposite for "freeway" or "expressway." Freeways always run above or below a "surface" formed by intersecting roads. It might also

Q1 - Yes, Henry James was a very famous American author. Q2 - Mexicans are to forgetting what the Jews are to remembering. This is making an analogy: It is associating "forgetting" with Mexicans, and "remembering" with Jews,

That's about right... it's close to impossible to sell a script, then a 1 in 10 chance it gets made, and then it turns out crap. But here's the problem with self production - you make the script they didn't want to buy into a

Today's main events were a bocce ball game (which I won with my partner Eugene Bales. Undefeated Bocce Champions! Neither of us had payed before, that should give you a feel for the challenge involved).. and more importantly, a talk from Gary

TV has to get them in the first 30-60 seconds. Film can breathe for a while after the cork is removed. Nice analogy. But what about when the film gets shown on TV? Don't worry about it it will have already established its reputation (for good

Hi Mysti, New to this group. I've enjoyed your posts, though - you seem smart and knowledgable, so I thought I'd give you my thoughts on your draft. Just thoughts as and when they occur: I think you need to cut the analogies: "Her

A couple of years ago, I noticed that the bottle of inexpensive, inoffensive Chardonnay on my table was burdened with the following description: ...abounds with aromas of pears, figs, bananas and ripe pineapple enhanced by notes of vanilla and

mckensie wrote on 03 Aug 2004: Don't be so negative about your abilities and possibilities. You've ... skills. That motivation is more important than almost anything else. Thank you so much, for a moment I became rather disenchanted. You