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Figures of speech fly in US political campaigns

Are you `comfortable in your own skin'? Are you an `alpha male'? Do you ever `fly off the handle'? A New York Times language maven explains it all for you so that you can get a handle on the jargon now in the air

By William Safire  /  NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE

This reporter will try to stay on top of the Americanisms cascading out of the US presidential campaign. That's how word mavens stay comfortable in their own skins.

William Safire, a syndicated current affairs columnist for the New York Times, also writes a weekly column about the use of language in US society.

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