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Parking outside the lines: South Florida’s avant-garages

Edit Atlanta Journal 24 May 2016
MIAMI and MIAMI BEACH, Florida - After dark, along the Lincoln Road Mall in Miami Beach, there’s plenty to occupy your gaze at ground level. Vibrant storefronts, fountains and alfresco dining attract a pageant of short skirts, tight tees and leashed lap dogs ... At the top, people circulate above it all ... PHOTO ... Miami and Miami Beach have become known for their eye-candy parking decks, which is a statement that seems patently oxymoronic ... ....

EU referendum: Jones and Wood urge voters to back Remain

Edit BBC News 23 May 2016
The first minister and leader of Plaid Cymru have made a joint appeal for voters to back staying in the EU. Carwyn Jones and Leanne Wood said their parties would work together to campaign for a Remain vote. Leaving the EU would risk "hard-won gains" including rights at the workplace and access for business to the single market, they warned ... Nathan Gill, UKIP Wales leader and leave campaigner, said ... It's an oxymoron," he added ... ....

I Suggest a Riot

Edit Huffington Post 23 May 2016
Last week was another Mental Health Awareness Week; they're coming hot and heavy now. Those of us who have a mental illness and our friends, family and co-workers are 'aware' every day of the year ... Facts ... It already affects more people than all physical illnesses put together ... I still say we need to protest loudly in front of Downing Street or wherever you go to get some attention without appearing mad (though that's an oxymoron) ... ___ ... > ....

Mullah Akhtar Mansoor obituary

Edit The Guardian 22 May 2016
Ruthless leader of the Afghan Taliban who bought loyalty with stacks of cash and treated opponents with brute force ... Mansoor’s role was less that of a preacher than a cartel boss ... Still, his rise to the top was anything but swift ... During the Taliban rule of the 90s, Mansoor was chief of aviation and had the almost oxymoronic task, in a largely sealed-off regime, of being in charge of tourism ... This ruse inevitably aroused suspicion ... ....

Why Do Chinese and Russian Fighters Keep Buzzing U.S. Spy Planes?

Edit Time Magazine 22 May 2016
When you’ve got an itch, you scratch it. That urge is often caused by an irritation, which is how China and Russia perceive recent U.S. military moves in their neighborhoods. That’s what accounts for a flurry of dangerous fly-bys of U.S. warplanes and ships by Beijing’s and Moscow’s aircraft ... around ... The U.S ... “To say it’s unsuitable because it lacks military dignity is a bit of an oxymoron.” ... ....

Cannes 2016 week two: zany dads, wild youth

Edit The Guardian 21 May 2016
With a wild Andrea Arnold film, a hilarious German comedy and Jim Jarmusch’s hymn to Iggy and the Stooges, Cannes 2016 has been the best in years. But who is Raoul and why does everyone call his name?. • Palais gossip. the talk of the town in Cannes. @XanBrooks ... Written and directed by Maren Ade, the film is that reputed oxymoron, a German comedy, except that this time the joke is on us because Toni Erdmann’s a hoot ... Twitter ... Twitter ... ....

Top ten OXYMORONS of the American Food Industry

Edit Natural News 20 May 2016
The AFI. The American Food Industry. What a shame that more than 90 percent of all conventional foods cause obesity, cancer, diabetes, dementia, arthritis, inflammation, fibromyalgia, brittle bones, strokes, lowered IQ and heart disease. One of the courses available... ....

Music

Edit Forbes 20 May 2016
Musician. The Canadian crooner has followed the path of countrymen Justin Bieber and Drake, parlaying a rabid online fan base into a major label record deal—and a spot on our list. Mendes’ break came courtesy of Vine, where he gained millions of followers singing six-second covers of pop songs ... Musician ... Musician ... The result ... The California rapper released major label debut "Oxymoron" in 2014, and it immediately rocketed to No....

Hyperdemocracy or Hypermodulation?

Edit CounterPunch 20 May 2016
We cannot stop the dissonance of what Franco Berardi calls infosphere or the universe of transmitters which we engage through “social media,” which “can be read as both a tautology and an oxymoron.” (Pettman, 31) Indeed, how can you have any sort of revolution if the solidarity required has collapsed into what Pettman calls ......

What's the Most Accurate TV Show About Recovery?

Edit Seattle Post-Intelligence 19 May 2016
Television producers have been telling stories about alcoholics and recovering alcoholics with more empathy and accuracy than ever, and there are more than a handful of shows with characters in recovery ... Barring the oxymoron of "residential outpatient" and a certain frothy falsity of tone, Recovery Road gets a lot of details right, according to our panel of experts....

Some tips for making flying less painful

Edit Stars and Stripes 19 May 2016
From airport to air-traffic control to conditions in the airplane cabin, air travel today suffers from overcrowding, understaffing and a scramble for profits at the price of civility. And while passengers have groused over the years about dwindling amenities and flourishing fees, they keep on boarding — in record numbers ... As Airfarewatchdog President George Hobica sees it ... — Lounges ... OK, this subtitle admittedly is kind of an oxymoron ... ....

John McCusker, Hello, Goodbye (Under One Sky) ****

Edit York Press 18 May 2016
THERE was a time when the phrase folkie celeb was as much an oxymoron as, say, military intelligence. These days John McCusker has as big a claim as any to trad music superstardom. Here he shows why, with a rare excursion into the solo world to remind us that the former Battlefield Band fiddle player has been at the top of his game for a quarter of a century now ... ....

Masculinity in African literature: in praise of a literary heartthrob

Edit The Guardian 18 May 2016
As a feminist, Minna Salami is interested in how masculinity is portrayed in the arts. She defends Odenigbo – from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Half of a Yellow Sun – as a romantic hero as impactful and lusted-after as Don Juan, Heathcliff and Romeo. By Minna Salami for MsAfropolitan, part of the Guardian Books Network ... It may sound like an oxymoron but transforming men’s roles is a necessary task while transforming women’s roles ... ....
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