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Weather mavens don't understand why El Niño begins.
Gingrich's departure from his freshly cultivated nicey-nicey image is largely unexpected and brings snickers from consistency mavens: "Was that the new old Gingrich or the old new new Gingrich?"
) Sprawled on a motel sofa, fielding awestruck questions from a couple of junior FBI agents, Pistone expounds on the meaning of the phrase "Fuh-get about it" (which, depending on one's inflection, can signal fatalistic acceptance, doomed resignation, murderous rage, enthusiastic agreement, or nothing in particular) in a speech that will live long in the hearts of gangster-movie mavens.
The discussion on language and culture moved to the need for self-appointed "language mavens" such as William Safire.
Just ask any literature professor how quickly English, French, and German departments flushed out their theory mavens once deconstruction became a dirty word.