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Feb 22, 2008 08:08 PM
Brian Braiker takes time out from his regular duties at I, Breeder to weigh in on the Oscars:
Allow us to take the occasion of the Oscars to bring up
something that has been bothering us lately: Lazy headline writers of
the world, the jig is up! Time to retire the
cliche "there will be ..." and "no country for ..." constructs. They've
both been done to death. Behold, from this month alone (we'd like to
blame this on the strike, but that doesn't seem quite right):
- There Will be Disappointment; Cinematical, 2/24/08
- There Will be Oscars; Times-Picayune, 2/24/08
- There Will be Gold; Baltimore Sun, 2/24/08
- There Will be Confusion; McClatchy Newspapers, 2/24/08
- There Will be Booze; New York Post, 2/24/08
- There Will be ... Oscar!; The Witchita Eagle, 2/24/08
- Oscars: This Year There Will be Milk; Anderson Herald Bulletin, 2/24/08
- There Will be Fun Trivia About The Oscars; Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2/23/08
- There Will be Blood; The Mirror, 2/23/08
- There Will be Oscar Specials; Suburbarazzi, 2/22/08
- There Will be Oscars; New York Times, 2/22/08
- Cool Swag of the Weel: There Will be Bullwhips; Cinematical, 2/22/08
- There Will be Gold: Oscar Picks; Express From The Washington Post (wtf?), 2/22/08
- There Will be Cake! Portal 2 Confirmed; PC Gaming, 2/22/08
- There Will be Blood; Seattle Post Intelligencer, 2/21/08
- There Will be Oscars; The Guardian UK, 2/21/08
- There Will be Stars on Sunday at the Academy Awards in Hollywood; Voice of America, 2/21/08
- There Will be Lots of Gazing at Stars on Oscar Night; The Tampa Tribune, 2/21/08
- Hollywood and the Internet: There Will be Blood; The Economist, 2/21/08
- There Will be Gloom and Doom at the Oscars; New Zealand Herald, 2/21/08
- Drink Up: There Will be Rum; Seattle Post Intelligencer, 2/20/08
- There Will be Oil; The Grist, 2/20/08
- There Will be Blood Over Stolen Laptop; Silicon Republic, 2/20/08
- Eco-homes: There Will be Floods; The Independent UK, 2/20/08
- For Scott Rudin, There will be quality; The LA Times, 2/19/08
- There Will be Memories; New York Times, 2/19/08
- There Will be Blood on CBS via 'Dexter'; San Jose Mercury News, 2/15/08
- State Budget, There Will be Blood; Arizona Daily Star, 2/15/08
- There Will be Blood; New York Times (Maureen Dowd), 2/3/08
There Will be Beating a Dead Horse. But wait! There's more:
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