A Job With No Duties "When I started out I was called the French Woody Allen and the white Spike Lee," said MATHIEU KASSOVITZ, the French director and actor who is co-starring in the new comedy "Amélie".
Then we started being called alternative metal.
It's hard to feel quite as affectionate about Bernstein's bad behavior once bad behavior starts being called out for what it is.
"We started out, and it was called Verified Identity Card, but 'V.I.C.' just looked awful.
Like many American broadband users, the Chos started out with what is called A.D.S.L., for asymmetric digital subscriber line, which is best at downloading data over broadband telephone networks.
It's not perfect, but it's a start; politicians are used to being called out by party purists demanding ideological conformity.
About 85 percent of patients start out with what is called relapsing-remitting M.S., characterized by flare-ups or attacks that cause lesions to form on the brain and that affect the ability to walk, to see and to control the bladder, among other neurological impairments.
Clymer also started out with what has been called "the collecting gene".
Moss once told me that the worst insult one L.A. architect could give another, when he was starting out three decades ago, was to call his or her work "beautiful". Something closer to ugliness or toughness was the goal, or at least architecture unconventional enough to reliably rattle bourgeois sensibilities.
"He came to New York and we started going out". Gower Champion was called back to Hollywood, where he spent a dismal year under contract to MGM.
Even young people who start out wanting to be different are called "freaks," and most are slowly bent back into the norm by the time they "grow up".
