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But, just as commentators bemoan the way contemporary pop has degenerated into sampling, remixes, and cover versions, so 2Pac's death seems to be merely a cunningly sampled remixed cover-version medley of previous celebrity deaths.
In all this talk about entries, it must be remembered that the (accepted) practice in counting dictionary entries in the U.S. (and becoming the standard in the U.K. as well) is to count not only headwords, or main entries, but inflected forms, variants, changes in part of speech, run-on words (like cunningly and cunningness under cunning ), and list words (like reaccuse and reacquire ), which need no definition.
My own favorite coup d'ironie occurs in the paragraph on Robert Craft's lapses: “He also refers to Mozart's first love,” Dr. Ober notes with regret, “as Aloysius,” instead of Aloysia , that is (or “Aloyisia” as the article cunningly renders it!)
Then there is the media event , an event staged deliberately and cunningly, even manipulatively, for extensive coverage by the media: it has also been called a pseudoevent .
Leone, Schickel writes, developed a style that alternated cunningly between extreme wide shots and extreme close-ups partly in an effort to monumentalize Eastwood's face; the director's mise en scène became "a landscape of masks."