Sunday, January 13, 2013

Hyperbole Alert

Memo to deejays and other radio hosts: Following our edict to dump "iconic" from your vocabulary, we now direct you to scratch "superstar."

The over-use of this term, employed to laud anyone who has had more than two gigs, reminds us of Johnny Mercer's line from "Hooray for Hollywood"--a town "where you're terrific if you're even good."

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