--The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artist, on Kenneth Clark
Op-Art: betterGets Credit for Movies?
By BEN SCHOTT
The blurb at the bottom of movie posters may look haphazard. But it’s a result
of intense negotiation.
Of course, Penguin is practically synonymous with paperbacks. It launched the paperback revolution in 1935, after publisher Allen Lane couldn't find anything worth reading for a train ride; with some exceptions, paperbacks were mostly shoddily-made potboilers before then. (If we may lead you a bit afield, John Walsh recently wrote a very nice appreciation of Penguin and its history in The Indpendent. You might also enjoy Matthew Ogle's The Paperback Revolution.)
More hedge funds are opening reinsurance firms as they look farther afield for ways to put their mounting assets to work.
The city's legit legit activity ground to a halt, with performances canceled as far afield as Shakespeare's Globe toward the southeast of the capital and west ...
Doctors Go Far Afield to Battle Epidemics
So Taiwanese companies such as Julia and Western Design, which has about 30 staff in Taipei, are now looking further afield. Julia is stationing photographers on the shores of the Aegean Sea, not to attract Greek couples but to lure wealthy Taiwanese and Asian newlyweds to take up a T$98,000 four-day package.If we look further afield, to what was then the rapidly expanding British Empire, the 19th and early 20th Centuries were something of a golden age for the construction of Anglican cathedrals. From Toronto to Calcutta, Cape Town to Cairo, Hong Kong to Singapore, the British built churches wherever they went.
potboiler - definition of potboiler by the Free Online Dictionary ...
www.thefreedictionary.com/potboiler
A literary or artistic work of poor quality, produced quickly for profit. [From the phrase boil the pot, to provide one's livelihood.] potboiler (ˈpɒtˌbɔɪlə). n. 1.
Oxford University Press- further
used as comparative of far
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Definition of further in English:
ADVERB
(also farther)
2.2Beyond or in addition to what has already been done:this theme will be developed further in Chapter 6
2.4At or to a more advanced, successful, ordesirable stage:determination could not get her any furtherat the end of three years they were no further on
ADJECTIVE
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2Additional to what already exists or has already taken place, been done, or been accounted for:cook for a further ten minutes
VERB
adverb
(ə-fēld')
adv.
- Off the usual or desired track. See synonyms at amiss.
- Away from one's home or usual environment.
- To or on a field.
far/further afield a long distance away:
We export our products to countries as far afield as Japan and Canada.
Our students come from Europe, Asia and even further afield.
legit
[形]((話))((叙述))
1 ＝legitimate.
2 正直な.
━━[名]舞台劇［俳優］；正統劇, 正統美術（家）.
on the legit
((米俗))正直な；合法的な.blurb
- 音節
- blurb
- 発音
- blə'ːrb
- blurbの変化形
- blurbs (複数形) • blurbs (三人称単数現在)
━━[動](他)…を（カバーの推薦文で）宣伝する.
［米国のユーモア作家F. Gelett Burgess（1866-1951）が1907年自著のジャケットに若い女の絵を描き, Miss Blinda Blurbと名づけたことから］boiler[boil・er]
- レベル：社会人必須
- 発音記号[bɔ'ilər]
[名]
1 ボイラー；煮沸器；((英))洗濯物煮沸殺菌用おけ.
2 給湯タンク.
3 煮物に適した物.
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Bunny boiler
Meaning
An obsessive and dangerous female, in pursuit of a lover who has spurned her.
Origin
The expression 'bunny boiler' derives from the 1987 film Fatal Attraction, written by James Dearden and Nicholas Meyer. The plot centres around Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) obsessively pursuing her ex-lover Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas). The phrase comes from the plot device whereby Forrest, in a fit of frenzied jealousy, boils her erstwhile lover's daughter's pet rabbit. Gallagher's suspicions should have become aroused earlier, when Forrest was trying to persuade him to meet her, when she said "Bring the dog, I love animals... I'm a great cook."
At the time that the phrase first came into general use it referred to someone unable to remain rational at the end of a romantic relationship. Very quickly that usage became moderated and it came to be used, often with some degree of irony, in much less extreme situations. Any needy, possessive or even just mildly annoying woman is now liable to be described as a 'bunny boiler'.
The phrase is the modern equivalent of the woman referred to in the expression 'Hell has no fury like a woman scorned' which, in the competition for 'best-known phrases attributed to Shakespeare that were actually by someone else', runs 'music has charms to soothe the savage breast' into a close second place. Both these phrases were coined by William Congreve in 1697, in the play The Mourning Bride. For reasons that I'll leave others to explain, it is only women who are thought to become unhinged by being what is now graphically known as 'being dumped'. There's no male equivalent of 'a women scorned' or a 'bunny boiler'.
As 'bunny boiler' is a recent phrase with such a clear source we are able to trace how it has found its way into popular use. It wasn't directly from the film, as the epithet isn't used in the dialogue, nor any of the advertising blurb used to promote it. As to who coined it, that's not clear, although it may well have been Glenn Close. The first use of it in print is from an interview Close gave to the US magazine the Ladies' Home Journal, reported in the Dallas Morning News on 6th December 1990:
"There's nothing like portraying a psychopathic bunny-boiler to boost one's self-esteem, Glenn Close tells Ladies' Home Journal."
Popular phrases that have found their way into the language since the emergence of the Internet appear first in online discussion groups, blogs and online newspapers. The earliest large archive of online colloquial messages is that of USENET groups, but Bunny boiler isn't found there until 1994, nor does it appear more than once or twice in the archives of US or British newspapers before that date.
If the phrase were a commercial product then marketing people would say that it reached its target audience in 1994. It certainly saw a sudden and widespread use from then onwards and is now a commonly used phrase. Fatal Attraction was released in 1987 and Close referred to the phrase in 1990. Newly coined terms appear to spread in the community like viruses and, like flu viruses, they float around in the populace until they reach a threshold of infected cases, above which they spread rapidly. It appears that 'bunny boiler' got to that point sometime in 1994.
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