In today’s PARADE, Leonoardo DiCaprio describes his response to hype about the Titanic.
“I was very much portrayed in the press as a heartthrob,” he said. “My instinctive reaction to this tabloid madness was to want to run away.”
Rhetorically, this is a double whammy. First there’s the word reaction, which is a spontaneous response to stimulus, [...]

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reaction vs. response
In yesterday’s interview, Katie Couric asked John McCain about a new Washington Post poll that shows Barack Obama recapturing the lead in the presidential race. “What’s your reaction to that?” she asked.
McCain proceeded to share his “response” to the poll, and here at Grammar Guard, we applauded.
A reaction is a sudden, spontaneous response [...]

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