QOTY? -- "hiding in plain sight"

[Joel S. Berson]

I was not referring (or not not referring, if you prefer) to the
phrase as "used by the Boston Globe to enumerate known contacts
Bulger made in Massachusetts and NY since going into hiding", which
means through 16 years, but rather to the phrase as used by Boston
media to refer to Bulger living openly near the Santa Monica Pier, as
discovered this year.

And if Garson is correct that "Tight deadlines combined with lethargy
may cause headline writers to use it again soon.", then doesn't it
become even more the QOTY?

Joel

At 6/25/2011 02:43 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>The phrase was also used repeatedly during the media coverage of an
>event in May:
>
>Bin Laden discovered 'hiding in plain sight'
>By Greg Miller and Joby Warrick
>2011 May 2 Washington Post
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bin-laden-discovered-hiding-in-plain-sight/2011/05/02/AFEljUbF_story.html
>
>Tight deadlines combined with lethargy may cause headline writers to
>use it again soon.
>
>On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:22 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > No explanation is necessary for the quote (the phrase was used by
> the Boston
> > Globe to enumerate known contacts Bulger made in Massachusetts and NY since
> > going into hiding). But why would it be QOTY? It's used routinely in
> > literature and cinema. I can cite at least three films I've seen recently
> > (of various vintage) that had the line in them (OK, one was 1970s and
> > French, but who is going to argue with Lino Ventura?).
> >
> > VS-)
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> No explanation seems necessary -- or is Whitey Bulger only a phenomenon of
> >> the Boston area and perhaps now Santa Monica?
> >>
> >> Joel
> >>
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