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The Decade of Double-Talk has just ended. But maybe it’s not the end of anything. Maybe we’re simply in the midst of the Era of Euphemism. Or the Millennium of Mumbo-Jumbo. In any case ...
We talk with some of this year’s most interesting film pairings, who say, among other things, that the best place to start is with a safe environment for experimentation . . . oh, and that a ...
Mr. Blinken says Israel took America’s advice. Is that part of the double-talk? Once one starts talking double, things get harder. If Messrs. Blinken and Biden knew all along that Hamas was the holdup ...
Senior Iranian officials are threatening to ramp up the country's nuclear program as the Trump administration weighs a possible strike against the regime if Tehran does not come to the table for ...
THE DOUBLE TALK EXPRESS....Does a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade plan mean that greenhouse gases would be capped? You'd think so, but in a press conference this morning we learned that apparently ...
It’s a form of double talk deployed by proponents of authoritarianism for political purposes, in which the terms being used mean the precise opposite of what the words say. Examples of such ...
As written, they really don’t make much sense; there’s no revealer entry, and the title of the puzzle, “Double Talk,” could mean any number of things, like repeated syllables, repeated ...