The DPP is now in an awkward position. If it defends the former president fervently then voters may punish it for supporting a politician considered corrupt. On the other hand the party does not want to risk alienating Mr Chen’s hardcore supporters. Thus the party produced a careful statement claiming that Taiwan’s judicial system is flawed and supporting Mr Chen’s appeal, but also saying that the ex-president should take responsibility for his actions, for example by remitting large sums of money kept by his family overseas.
Multimedia Makes Alloy a Teen Magnet
The company behind "Gossip Girl" has established a reputation for its savvy in connecting with young people. Now, Alloy is moving into Web video.
Since this is the Hamptons, room rates for the busy summer season have not yet dropped along with the economy — and it’s unclear if they will. So to sample the good life at more affordable prices,
savvy weekenders can take advantage of deals this winter and spring, when nightly rates dip into the $150-to-$350 range before doubling after
Memorial Day.
新近美國書市就冒出一本跌破英文老師眼鏡的紙本書《文法妹英文作文大賤招》（
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing），同時發行有聲版，引發話題。作者蜜儂‧佛卡提（Mignon Fogarty）一年前在網路架設「文法妹大賤招」網站，自製個人廣播「播客」（podcast）解說常見文法疑問，聽眾下載踴躍，快速破七百萬人次。 「光聽不容易學會，最好有文字可讀」，網站特別提供文字內容，最近編輯精華出書，向粉絲的荷包進攻。【聯合報╱吳凌遠／報導】2008.08.31
quick and dirty,
adj.
Cheaply made or done; of inferior quality:
a quick-and-dirty construction project; a quick-and-dirty research report.
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The phrase is also frequently used in describing any document or tutorial that gives a brief overview about how to do something, without going into too much detail about why or how it works.
Wikipedia article "Quick-and-dirty".
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Re: Quick and dirty
Posted by ESC on November 24, 2000
In Reply to:
Meaning of phrase Quick and Dirty posted by John on November 23, 2000
: What is the meaning of the phrase Quick and dirty?
: What is the origin of that saying?
Doing a task "quick and dirty" means the person doesn't have time for perfection. The end product may not be pretty but it's finished on schedule. I am fairly certain that this was first a sexual expression meaning a "quickie," no hearts and flowers and "I love you truly," just "wham bam, (thank ye ma'am)." If I may be so crude.
And while we're on the subject: "Quickie" was "...originally late 1920s Hollywood slang for a Grade B movie, a film comparatively cheap and quick to produce. By the 1930s the term was being used to mean a quick act of sexual intercourse." From the "Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins" by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997).
"Wham bam (thank-ye-ma'am)," Mr. Hendrickson tells us, "...is an American courtship term that dates back to the 19th century" when people traveled over bad roads. When the passengers were being bounced around "...the gentleman could steal a kiss and usually express his gratitude with a 'Thank-ye-ma'am,' that expression becoming synonymous for a quick kiss or for any hole in the road that caused riders to bump up and down. It wasn't long before some wit took this innocent phrase to bed, or to the side of the road somewhere, and elaborated on it, for in 1895 we find recorded the related expression 'wham bam (thank-ye-ma'am) for quick coitus. As a matter of fact, the first recorded use of both expressions occurs in that year."
savvy
━━ v. 〔話〕 知る, わかる.
━━ n. 〔話〕 実際的知識.
━━ a. 〔話〕 抜け目のない.
「EXCEED英和辞典」
- 自他動 知る、分かる、理解する、洞察力がある
・Savvy? 分かった？
・I savvy what I savvy.
・Is that what you savvy?
- 名 実際的知識、手腕、機転、常識
・He needed somebody with some street savvy.
- 形 よく知っている、知識のある、経験豊富な、精通している、心得た、抜け目のない◆【同】sharp ; clever◆非常に肯定的な意味
Music | 20.07.2007
European Music Rocks the Summer Festival Scene
US and British bands usually steal the headlines at Europe's most important summer music festivals. Yet in recent years musicians from small European countries have begun rocking festival lineups and winning over fans.
Most festivalgoers have been partying for a day or two by the time zZz gets its 30-minute shot at fame, usually squeezed between other
up-and-coming acts fighting for the attention of a hungover afternoon crowd.
"It's very compact," Björn Ottenheim, zZz's drummer and singer said about playing such a short set. "It's like you can make love to a woman all night long or you can also make it
quick and dirty, which can also be very beautiful."
The "wham-bam, thank you ma'am" of their short festival set is not the only
sleazy factor of zZz's current act. You can definitely hear the funky porn soundtrack influence and the heady dope and sex atmosphere from the Red Light district running as a lusty undercurrent in this Amsterdam duo's organ-fueled dance music.
It's something those festival ravers waiting for the big acts later in the night might miss as they sleep off the excesses of the night before.
Playing to the
hardcore all-day party people in the earlier slots is something zZz are getting used to. This summer the Dutch duo found itself playing small stages at major music festivals in Great Britain, Slovenia and Belgium.
Last summer, it was much of the same as they trawled through the mid-afternoon bill at festivals in Italy, France and Spain as well as getting booked at Popkomm, a festival associated with a large trade show for the music and entertainment industry held in Berlin.
It's not easy being European
Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Björn Ottenheim, left, and Daan Schinkel of zZz
But while it may not be as glamorous as headlining Glastonbury or Rock am Ring, the fact that bands like zZz are getting this type of exposure is certainly a reason to be hopeful.
Bands from non-English-speaking European countries have always had to contend with getting a lot less media attention and air time than their American and British counterparts.
"When you don't come from the US or UK, it's already pretty hard," said Ottenheim in a phone interview from the Dour Festival in Belgium. "Being from Holland, you have to have that extra bit of luck that people take some time to check us out. And then most of the time they're stuck immediately when they hear us."
For many years, festival promoters didn't book European bands because they simply had no way of finding out about them.
But things have been getting better. The situation began to change for the musical
minnows in 2003, when the European Talent Exchange Program (ETEP) launched an effort to bring together festival promoters and potential talent. ETEP-sponsored bands will play 200 shows in festivals this summer, up from 50 in the first year. Until recently, part of the funding came from the European Commission.
"We think it's working very well," ETEP founder Peter Smidt said of the program. "But it's definitely not yet the case that a German or a Dutch or a French act automatically have access to the European market. It's still very difficult."
Summer soundtrack
Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Festivals dot Europe's summer landscape
Summer music festivals are big business in Europe. About 144,000 alternative music fans showed up for the four-day Dour Festival. And if only a fraction of them went to see zZz, then it still would have been a marked improvement on crowds the band could have hoped to have played to before the ETEP came into being.
"We love playing festivals of this caliber," Ottenheim said of the Dour Festival. "To have a whole tent of people freaking out on my music is a pretty immense feeling. It's rewarding and it's very sexy."
With record sales stagnating, the summer festivals have become an essential way for bands to get exposure outside their home countries, said Christof Huber, of the Swiss-based European festival association Yourope.
"I think the people want to explore new bands.
If the quality of the live act is there, bands from Europe can be headliners right now," Huber said.
Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Many festivals are multi-day events
While most bands sing in English regardless of where they are from, some have had success singing in their native language. The German band Wir sind Helden (We are Heroes) have been selling out shows across Europe, as have Norwegian
outfit Kaizers Orchestra. (outfit 團體)
Icelandic trance-rockers Sigur Ros are also a big draw on the European circuit despite the fact that most people don't have a clue what they're singing about.
The diversity and quality of European bands is at an all-time high, Smidt believes. "That's the nice thing about European culture, that it has this diversity and it's not like one sound," he said.
Big in Japan
Bands from small European countries like the Netherlands "need to go abroad to survive," Smidt said.
Which explains zZz's relentless touring, which has included stops in places as diverse as Japan and the South by Southwest music event in Austin, Texas -- considered to be a must for any band wanting to break into the US market. Ottenheim and bandmate Daan Schinkel will head back to Britain in August to play the Summer Sundae Weekender festival.
Despite the odds, zZz has every intention of making it big in the music business, Ottenheim said. That's a bold statement. It's been 33 years since the Dutch band Golden Earring showed up on US charts with its hit "Radar Love."
"I wouldn't mind kicking it even further than Golden Earring," Ottenheim said. "We're doing pretty good in Japan. We're just working as hard as we can on the music we make and the shows we do."
Trinity Hartman
The
noun weekender has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: someone who vacations on a weekend
Meaning #2: a small suitcase to carry clothing and accessories for a weekend trip
hardcore
also
adj.
- Intensely loyal; die-hard: a hard-core secessionist; a hard-core golfer.
- Stubbornly resistant to improvement or change: hard-core poverty.
- Extremely graphic or explicit: hard-core pornography.
Definition of minnow
noun
1a small freshwater Eurasian cyprinoid fish that typically forms large shoals.
- Phoxinus phoxinus, family Cyprinidae
any fish of the family Cyprinidae, the largest family of fishes, which includes carps, shiners, spinefins, squawfishes, chubs, daces, and stonerollers.
used in names of similar small freshwater fishes, e.g., mudminnow, topminnow.
Fishing an artificial lure imitating a minnow.
2a person or organization of relatively small size, power, or influence.
Origin:
late Middle English: probably related to Dutch
meun and German
Münne, influenced by Anglo-Norman French
menu 'small, minnow'
tiddler
Entry from World dictionary
noun
British informal
a small fish, especially a stickleback or minnow.
a young or unusually small person or thing: she was only a little tiddler, ten years old
Origin:
late 19th century: perhaps related to tiddly2 or tittlebat, a childish form of stickleback
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