Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 19, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba A photo liberated Liberty St Paul water up against rest it May not have much of a bouquet and its Vintage is without but the favorite drink of folks aft and Here is bound to be a Winner in a National taste at least that what local officials Are a water Sample from Paul will represent Minnesota against the Best that new to Washington and have to we think were going to no said torn general manager of the Paul water utile who will take the Sample to Washington on june 23 for the an Nual gathering of the american water works Memphis boasts a big Barbecue a your average backyard Barbecue it not with 250 platoons of Cooks tending the grills and guests guzzling Beer and snatching despite All of police said things were generally peaceful at the Memphis in May International Barbecue cooking contest at a Park overlooking the there were a few arrests for drunkenness or setting off and about a dozen cars were towed away for illegal officers the annual event began it features cooking teams from As far away As the country being honoured this month by the a Model of the statue of Liberty is for Sale in Mexico City after a movie set completed winners Are to be announced filming and found no further use for the 75foot mock up which Cost to pact Irish warned Ireland a prime minister Garret Fitzgerald opened his Fine Gael party annual conference yesterday with a warning that society in embattled Northern Ireland will disintegrate unless a political settlement is reached Fitzgerald said recent events have demonstrated the persistent depth of the roman Catholic minority alienation in Northern ire a British province with a protestant Majori he apparently was referring to the municipal elections last week in Northern in those sinn the outlawed Irish Republican army Legal political won 59 of 566 seats and will be represented in 17 of 26 town fitzgeralds government has been engaged in political discussions with British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to achieve a the British government said Friday it will not talk to sinn fein unless it renounces its support for Ira in his keynote address to the Fitz Gerald said there is a real Chance his peace efforts could i do not say that what we Are now attempting with the British government will necessarily succeed or even that the Odds Are in favor of such he the Odds Are at Best perhaps evenly but he added we cannot allow ourselves the luxury of he could mean a disintegration of society in Northern Ireland As Well As the threat that such a disintegration would spread to our society i Hope and Pray we can eventually reach a the alternative would present a very serious situation mine towns shops shut to mourn dead Tokyo a most shops closed in the Northern mining town of Tubari yesterday As families went into mourning for 62 miners killed deep underground in a Coal Shaft rent by an the disaster took place Friday at the Mitsubishi Minami of Tubari mine in Central 900 Kilometres North of the blast occurred almost one Kilometre under ground during a shift change when the shafts were crowed besides the 24 miners were 10 company and Union officials about 250 other miners underground at the time escaped police confiscated mine company files Satur Day in an investigation to see if negligence was said Masahisa a spokesman for hokkaido state i never thought such an Accident would actually one of the miners wives said in an my husband was working at one of the most Modem her 29year old Kazuo was among those i had no words to express my a relative of 46yearold Kihachiro another dead said after visiting Samatas i must endure my of the dead were from a Tubari neighbourhood called Small groups of relatives and friends Clad in Black were seen on National television visiting traditional make shift tents there outside the House marked with signs that read in seeding operations ahead of schedule seeding operations Are slightly ahead of sched ule this a provincial agriculture depart ment spokesman Between 75 and 90 per cent of Cereal As Well As about 50 per cent of oilseed and special Are already in the John Bogaisky said rain last weekend was a Welcome sight in most in some Western such As conditions were threatening to Slop Ron furniture 12 hour Price cutback monday May 20 9 am to 9 pm hundreds of new used Gars n Unis Savi on Brand jeep huge savings 5 year k warranty on the spot financing value Wise shoppers will not miss this financing on sic of d Moon u full details at 9 he Farmers near Dominion City had w Millimetres of which was a Little too Farmers near the Pas and in the Northern interlace Are behind the rest of mainly because of excess he said Winnipeg free May Stop starting off with that there and watch beginning with and but Rule can be however times news service theres no there there was Gertrude steins classic slander of the City of that was the last time a sentence was started successfully with a Prono impersonal there is an inclination among weak writers to use there at the beginning of look at the slow starting agglomeration of words in the previous sen tence its a wet Noodle of a putting the Reader to sleep before coming to life with the word compare that pronominal there Pap to this vigorous alternative weak writers Are inclined to use there at the beginning of you what about shake speares there is a tide in the affairs of men face it even the Bard had his bad if he had a Shakespeare would pick up the phone and say rewrite i want to change Brutus line that begins there is a tide to a tide exists hold on make that great tides appear same iambic and putting the noun up closer to the front gives it a Little there is is a weak Way to Start any rewrite would say but How about the there in hamlets theres the rub that there sounds pretty Strong to serves real purpose Shakespeare would then patiently Point out to rewrite that when meaning a place or an intensifier for is a Power Ful so therel when used to mean thither or Yon As in Cassius Over there has a lean and hungry there has its and when meant As at or to that serves a real what is the Point of this piece in get Ting but when used in As a Mere function word for writers reluctant to bite into the subject without first fiddling there is a sign of irresolution and Pupil Brutus deep weak maybe Shakespeare was sending a on that leave the there is bit the linking verb that follows the Lazy writers pronominal in personal is also weak sentences that Start there is stagger to the starting compare the Wim pish there Are a couple of Rea sons i like to hide behind there to the forceful the reasons i reject there is include another Way not to Start a sen tence is witha the Reader has been euchre into a style piece about ways not to Start we finally got conjunctions like but and because Are intended to join thoughts or to subordinate one idea to but when used to Start these conjunctions usually produce a Sloppy or Choppy Good Start to Story this Rule can be broken with great effect Shirley Jackson began a Superb Short Story with and the first thing they did was segregate me but dra Matic purpose in opening with a conjunction was to give the impression of not starting at the to be totally even i have started sentences with and too often frankly when i want to give the impression of a sudden after thought or an admission i dragged out of myself that i had not planned to set Forth in my in starting you should watch out for a word that starts a withdrawal from a inside a where it but is not As specific As except no alibis except Ter Minal frizzled accepted but but is a stronger contradiction than of you want to contradict use but in the same sentence Shes an intellectual but i like her and if you want to slide off a Flat introducing a qualification out of fairness or second use however after a semicolon or at the Start of a new sentence Shes an As j am no Dummy i like not every language authority agrees with me on this mild approval of however to Start a Strunk and White discourage the use of How Ever As a conjunctive adverb at the beginning of 3 writes Leslie a professor of English at it when it is an adverb meaning matter i and Many of on language William satire my colleagues continue to Correct this in our students but the number of grammar handbooks demonstrating the however in the initial position makes us wonder whether there is any ground for continuing to insist on this matter of no grounds forget however Many purists insist that the Only time however May be used to Start a sentence is demonstrated at the Start of this the fact is that such a requirement is More important meaning what is More important let us continue to resist More which con notes forced we cannot let great old style books dictate today dont use however when you mean in spite which is tougher than the Broa spec Trum if you mean i know All and i am not persuaded and really want to separate your self from All that has gone you can do much better than try or if the spite turns you use the fast disappearing re member that song Eddie Fisher used to sing hum it on your Way to English you can begin a even a with nevertheless it will have More punch than a paragraph beginning with How you Are the Only one read ing this paragraph everyone else skipped it because however graphs Are for timorous govern ment Tough speechwriters come right out with on the other we will now rewrite the next to last sentence to show How simper ing it is to use because at the heres the revision Why Are you the Only one Reading this paragraph because everyone else skipped less effective that use of because at the Start creates a sentence fragment and is not As effective As Why Are you the Only one Reading this paragraph the reason is that everyone else if you now Why is that More effective my answer is because in the language that and when i break a As i do in this i break it wide open treat your readers to action up its bad enough to dribble but its worse to dribble with the tide running to wipe out there we will next Wash away it Boring such a taken at the leads on to Fortune All the cadence of our prose is spent in Shal lows and in Nan the next superstar in Holly and the next occupant of the White will be a person with that is a word i think i overheard in an ice Cream parlor it May be a wed Ding of Charisma and if i picked it up correctly it is difficult for me to try to overhear teenagers Slang without appear ing to be a dirty old the coinage is Brilliant chrism is the hitherto indefinable Quality held by someone whose assertive manliness has a magnetic attract a simpler Chism a clipped form of machismo has been spotted and recorded by Dennis Corrigan of the University of he reports also that Way Sweet and Mondo Choice Are current expressions of approval crispy describes a Burntout and Joannie is anything out of com Puter sounds have produced dweeb and synonyms for the archaic time for a fresh look at Campus Slang for a backs school piece in the Strung users overhung stringers for the lexicographic irregulars at whats matter Are urged to report in with the latest examples of words for especially such activities As imbibing being being being nouns Are also sought that currently signify hard or easy and people that rents used to Call sex jocks and include the test derogation of computer enthusiasts and Send to the nonce word on the Winnipeg free Gar Tor r3c ;