Help the New York Times beguile fickle Sunday readers by rewriting this tease from a recent Saturday edition of the paper:
THIS WEEKEND: NEW YORK, NEW YORK
How much do you need to feel [SYNONYM FOR “RICH”] in the city; the new-[THING THAT RICH PEOPLE HAVE A LOT OF] arts patron; the outsourcing of [PLACE WHERE RICH PEOPLE MAKE MONEY]; [SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVE MEANING “MOST PROSPEROUS”] neighborhoods; and more.
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Help Maureen Dowd improve her column of Sept. 12, 2007:
“It’s obvious that the Surge is like those girdles the secretaries wear on [UNRELATED POP CULTURE REFERENCE]. It just pushes the fat around, giving a momentary illusion of flatness. But once [IRREVERENT NICKNAME] Petraeus, as he was known growing up in Cornwall-on-Hudson, takes the girdle off, [UNRELATED HIGH CULTURE REFERENCE].”
The New York Times’ verb department has had something of a field day in describing the highly reprehensible conduct of the remorseless California wild fires. According to the Times of Oct. 23rd, here’s what the California fires have done so far:
Punished
Stymied
Burned
Marched
Consumed
Raged
Threatened
Sparked
Thrashed
Continued their grim procession
Sped
Jumped
Surprised
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