Streets
The PBS NewsHour, tonight, in a seconds-long obituary: “He rose from the streets of working-class Brooklyn,” &c. Ah, yes, “the streets.” A cheap — not to mention insulting — cliché. Not even the sidewalks?
PBS, sheesh
“. . . between he and Hillary Clinton . . .”
Flaunt for flout (PBS, sheesh)
“The hippies openly flaunted the law.”
PBS, sheesh
From tonight’s PBS News Hour : “There is confusion over conflicting advice about whom should get tested for the disease.”
PBS, sheesh
From tonight’s PBS NewsHour : “In this campaign, the topic of refugees from war-torn Syria have been a political flash point.”
PBS, sheesh
Bach is not for background.