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CONSUMING PASSIONS by Judith Flanders Harper Press, £20, pp. 604, ISBN 0007172958 . £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
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Making the Case for Victoriana
CONSUMING PASSIONS by Judith Flanders Harper Press, £20, pp. 604, ISBN 0007172958 . £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
When people use the word 'journalese', they always do so pejoratively. They are not thinking of James Cameron, Bernard Levin or Walter Winchell. They mean a style that traffics in clichés. The poet B. I. Isherville has derided that kind of writing:Where every heresy is rank And every rank is serried; Where every crook is hatchet-faced, And every hatchet buried.There are cliché headlines, too, and for some reason articles on food seem specially to attract them. Any novice sub-editor thinks he or she is being wildly or Wildely witty in heading a piece on puddings 'Just...See the full content of this document
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