UPDATE: There's just one problem with Chuck Todd's insistence that news organizations stop overusing the phrase "breaking news".
The poem opens with a familiar attention-getting phrase: " 'Breaking / Anna Nicole news / as she buries / her son.' " What is never available in "breaking news" is what comes next: in this case, the mother, Anna Nicole Smith, died, too.
The phrase broke into the U.S. political lexicon to mark the furious lawmaking at the beginning of F.D.R.'s presidency.
Not only is that phrase broken up in the puzzle but we do indeed have four grid edges, each with a hidden "ROUGH" in them.
Yet no other show got a stronger, more sustained fan reaction and, to borrow that well-worn phrase, broke the internet like Stranger Things.
On the track Daydreaming, the repeated phrase "half of my life" is believed to refer to the time Yorke had spent with Owen, and on Identikit, Yorke repeats the phrase "broken hearts make it rain".
The phrase "break a leg" may imply something a bit more literal to the soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, below right, when she performs in Verdi's "Ernani" at the Lyric Opera in Chicago on Oct. 27.
"Most people shouldn't watch a film that even mentions the words 'newborn porn' (and God willing that two-word phrase broke your soul as much as typing it hurt mine), and I sincerely hope you stay away from this film," Mr. Prisco wrote in the online review.
If so, then the Knight Commission will be able to make a better report on the state of college athletics than it did the other day, when its panel, which includes 14 past and present college presidents, noted, as it has in years past -- the phrase broken record comes to mind -- that the corrupt and hypocritical state of college sports is "abysmal" and the environment "disgraceful".
In the first movement, taken here at a swift tempo, the right hand goes on a melodic adventure, with lyrical phrases breaking into elaborations that keep you off guard.
Eventually short, abrupt phrases break out into passages that sound like fractured jazz piercing through fog.
