[Ads-l] notes on nominalized adjectives

[Jonathan Lighter]

Rep. Dave Brat: "The need for fair and balanced would be good."

Alan Ginsberg, _Howl_ (1955): "Angelheaded hispters ...who were expelled
from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of
the skull."

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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