Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...International Olympic Committee Eligibility Code...
Small, image-enhancing fibs like that are a habit of the profession whose code she helped to shape, and let there be no doubt about what that profession was. It was stardom. This is not to say that she was not, on occasion, an effective actress. It is to suggest that acting - like shading her age or flattering her fan clubs with personal attention or fighting the studio bosses for strong roles or making sure her eyebrows were properly plucked - was part of the larger job of being a star...
...Mafia's code limits social activities. " 'Made' guys [Mafiosi] don't like their wives to mingle with the wives of other 'made' guys," says a former Mob lieutenant, "because they might reveal something about each other. The only thing wives go to is wakes, weddings and funerals...
...cash and drugs from the outside. Nothing else much matters. All the other undercurrents of prison life feed into this network of domination--the meals, the exchanges with guards, the vocational training programs. Every activity provides a chance to jockey for influence. Every bit of slang becomes a code-word. Every move somehow reflects on the prison hierarchy...
...begs for a technical slip-up to relieve the tension. Here the gay jokes supply the only possible relief: you can either laugh at them or scoff at them, deciding that they undermine the play's deeper solemnity. But Herbert still means above all to lay bare the barbarous code that prisoners live under--and what it means for men of sensibility to succumb, or not to succumb, to that code. And if you let it, this production brings home that statement with poignancy...