some items of interest from tomorrow's (Sunday) NYT

[Laurence Horn]

There's a devastating review in the NYTBR by P. J. O'Rourke, of all
people, of the new hot pop language book, Leslie Savan's _Slam Dunks
and No-Brainers: Language in Your Life, the Media, Business,
Politics, and, Like, Whatever_.

Then, in the Magazine, the cover story--a well-written first-hand
account of life during Katrina and the evacuation of New Orleans by
the author and nth generation New Orleanian Michael ("Moneyball")
Lewis--introduces the participle "(to get) domed"--

"New Orleans now had a new word for what happens to people unlucky
enough to fall into the hands of the authorities purporting to save
them: domed.  As in 'I just got domed', or 'If the police knock on
your door, don't answer, 'cause you might get domed'.  To be domed is
to be herded into a domed sports building--the Superdome, the
Astrodome, the Maravich basketball arena at Louisiana State
University--for your own safety."
--Michael Lewis, "Wading Toward Home", p. 66

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Something for WOTY consideration, perhaps.  Certainly new in this
sense, I'd wager.

Larry