Word: argot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drugs frequently and openly, and their compositions are riddled with references to drugs, from the Beatles' "I get high with a little help from my friends" to the Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit ("Remember what the dormouse said: Feed your head"). The culture has its own in-group argot: "bummers" (bad trips) and "straights" (everyone else), "heat" (the police) and "narks" (narcotics agents), and being "spaced out" (in a drug daze...
...elusive. While it is a reminder of treasured values lost, it is an uncertain guide to their recovery. Many may vote for Mailer nonetheless, if only because he represents an alternative to old approaches that have made the city seem ungovernable. Handicapper Mailer, appraising his chances in race-track argot, accurately considers himself "a 20-1 long shot." On his personal morning line, however, the contender adds with bravura: "Best...
...Ronson Lighter. The imaginative leap from adolescent affluence and argot to a perception of teen-age attitudes is what gives Absolute Beginners its moral energy. The novel would be no more than a cheerful nature walk from the Elephant and Castle to Notting Hill if Maclnnes did not see beneath all the apparent irresponsibility. What he finds is the fusion of caring and a concern for style that leaves young people unimpressed by questions of race or war or money...
...Argot. One of the few series that consistently take the attitude that contemporary kids can be heroes is ABC's The Mod Squad (Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.). The hour-long show features-three youngsters: a miniskirted blonde (Peggy Lipton), a disenchanted rich white boy (Michael Cole), and an angry young black (Clarence Williams III). All three are credible individuals despite the hip argot, heavily littered with "solids" and "uprights," and frequently incredible plots. The show has been successful enough to be carried over into next season, even though the three are not likely to win universal favor among their...
...Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan, the book, published in Europe in 1957, concludes a crazed autobiographical trilogy-one of the most terrible ever written. Its perverse moral passion is all the more forceful because its obscene invective, snarled out in the argot of the streets, is that of a slum Savonarola raging against men not for living wrongly but for living...