blue helmet n.— «Video footage seen by The Independent shows the bodies of many killed in the capital, Port-au-Prince, and contains testimony from witnesses claiming the victims were killed by “blue helmets”—common parlance...
hotel journalism n.— «Leonard Doyle, foreign editor of The Independent in London, said, “we make a big effort not to do what you might call “hotel journalism,” and we make a very big effort not to sub-contract work to...
labbrosaur n.— «A mischievous journalist, Roberto D’Agostino, coined the word labbrosaur to describe the bee-stung lip look that has blossomed up and down the country. The word Labbra means lip in Italian.» —“How self-inflicted...
doji n.— «Instead, it concerns an arcane 17th century Japanese method of mastering the markets via a system of “harmi line patterns,” “doji line candles” and “dark cloud corners.”» —“Pembroke:...
spasskultur n.— «There has been much talk in recent months of the emerging Spasskultur—roughly translatable as “fun ethos,” and not to be confused with Leitkultur. The latter is an undefined mishmash of traditional German...
leitkultur n.— «There has been much talk in recent months of the emerging Spasskultur—roughly translatable as “fun ethos,” and not to be confused with Leitkultur. The latter is an undefined mishmash of traditional German...