A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top … - William Safire

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Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

William Safire

A reader should be able to identify a column without its byline or funny little picture on top purely by look or feel, or its turgidity ratio.

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Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.

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Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.

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. . . it's Bush's baby, even if he shares its popularization with Gorbachev. Forget the Hitler 'new order' root; F. D. R. used the phrase earlier.

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