Mr. Farmer's concept is to add a "B" to certain words in popular phrases to create a different, humorous phrase, and, fortunately for us, they all work.
They should respond both to the original term and to one another's words and phrases to create a word web or cluster.
Mr. Johnson uses the rhythms of Stone's speech, either directly or in tape loops created from short phrases, to create templates for his own score.
Mr. Cuomo chops up and repeats words and phrases to create a vocal part around which the orchestra plays fractured marches, bursting chords and spans of astringent harmonies.
R.E.M. taught successive generations of American rockers how to be vague and specific at the same time; by juxtaposing evocative phrases to create poetic collages, they involved listeners in the creation of the meaning of their songs.
Like many poets in the modern tradition, she relies on charged words and phrases to create an atmosphere of portent and high emotion rather than attending to precision or sense; she writes vaguely but at a high volume.
On the horizon are systems that will urge us to click our way down a giant menu of stock phrases to create digital notes, which will be fabulously legible and give readers exactly no idea of who patients are and how they are doing.
On pages of Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom," he made careful rips in the pages, to expose photographs he had laid underneath, like a Max Ernst collage, and then circled phrases on the page, with a sharpie, joining them to other random phrases to create new mini-narratives: "I am so ready to celebrate / a decent restaurant"; "the very safe neighborhood / was attacked by / a totally safe neighborhood".
Like American and European Modernists, he sought to rid the language of tired, worn out words and phrases to create a more concise art form.
The first note the beginning of music would differ for each person according to individual gestures, allowing free expression using sound phrases to create their original sound filling the space".
