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What a Cliché! recalls the mixed metaphors quoted in The News [Boca Raton, June 8, 1992], attributed to a University of Florida professor of political science, Walter Rosenbaum:
In 1998, he allegedly accepted 100,000 shares in a cigar maker and Boca Raton deli-owner; in return, he is said to have recommended the stock to his customers, without revealing his relationship to the company.
Can you imagine 'the Boca Raton intellectuals' exercising cultural clout in the national media, with profiles about them to follow in the Times ? Don't hold your breath.
But the larger vocabulary of English is irrelevant in two respects: much of this larger vocabulary is esoteric, exotic, pedantic, or otherwise as foreign to everyday English usage as Chinese; and whereas vocabulary is quantified by words, the expressive units of French tend to be phrases, such as chemin de fer, joie de vivre , and raton laveur . By the usual lexical reckoning one could say that French has no word for rail-road or raccoon .
The host institution is Florida Atlantic University, an undistinguished university in Boca Raton evidently looking for an excuse to lure name-brand talent to its campus--and who would refuse a Florida gig, especially if they make it in, say, February?