After reading Jim Windolf's review of Simon Reynolds's "Rip It Up and Start Again" (March 5), I found myself wondering whether it's only books about pop music that leave authors exposed to charges of being "brainy" and using "99-cent locutions".
Many of the brainy youngsters who used to flock to investment banks or hedge funds will put their talents to other, perhaps more productive, uses.Mr Bush of Athena Health thinks this is terrific.
Juno is no more a showoff than the actress who plays her; she's a brainy misfit who uses words both as a defense and as a tool to carve out her place in the world.
Make sure you only use your brainy words when it is appropriate, or you'll look like a show off (and therefore a loser; not good).
Other apps, including Pandora, Getty Images, YouTube and Brainy App, can be used with a dementia patient to boost cognitive function through easily accessible music, photos, videos and memory games.
This brainy, Iranian-born conceptualist uses photography to explore unspoken ideologies that drive Western museum practices.
Then she pulled to a curb, inhaled, and opened a spelling book that her brainy son had been using that year.
In a brainy essay titled "The Uses of a 'Disease': Infertility as Rhetorical Vehicle," authors Margarete Sandelowski and Sheryl de Lacey write that "whereas barrenness used to connote a divine curse of biblical proportions and sterility an absolutely irreversible physical condition," infertility today "connotes a medically and socially liminal state".
Terrible song lyrics and silly jokes are as central to what he does as arcane bodies of knowledge, and there's little scorn or condescension in his use of less brainy material.
Mr. Chafets answers jokes by Jon Stewart and other comics about the "dumb blondes" of Fox News by reciting the university and career credentials of various beauty queens and runway models who work there, and writing that Megyn Kelly is "both blond and brainy, and she has made good use of her glamour-girl image".
