Archive for Headlines
To an eel
Makes list
One phrase to rule them all
Untruncating
Carrying cocaine
More about colon-as-attribution-signifier
run of wines?
I thought a recent headline said this: Asian scientists set to topple America's run of wines But then while I still trying to figure out the context for that, I...
Texas city
Eyebrow-raising headline: BP plans to sell Texas city, California plants I knew BP was powerful, but do they really own an entire city in Texas? The first line of the...
cables
There's a stylistic convention in newspaper headlines that I never got the hang of: paraphrasing something someone said, then a colon, then an indication of whoever it was that said...