Hulking eyesore, scores a double.

As you may know, there’s a Law of Journalese that requires all parking garages to be identified as hulking. Another law allows reporters to be architectural critics by identifying buildings they don’t like as eyesores. Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung follows these laws in a column Dec 23, 2016, and scores a double by identifying a waterfront parking garage as a ‘hulking eyesore.” Of course, no Globe reporter or columnist would dare describe the Globe’s own building as a hulking eyesore. At least not until after it has been sold.

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