Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talk English. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Eng lish and Japanese. The old man can't speak Japanese. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Japanese and Carolinian. The old man can't speak Carolinian. Hutton summons an interpreter who speaks Carolinian and a dialect called Charono. The old man speaks Charono. Back through the chain of interpreters, Charono to Carolinian to Japanese to English, comes the old man's message. He has to go to the bathroom...
Taking voice lessons, she shed her Neapolitan dialect for a clearer Italian. She posed for more pictures-semi-covered with a bath towel, twirling an eel like a two-foot hot dog, being lassoed by Indians, having her brassière adjusted by a male volunteer, going to Mass, holding her skirt so high that the Italian police confiscated the entire edition of the magazine that ran the picture on its cover...
Wholesale relies heavily on Jewish folk and speech ways. But as comedy, Jewish dialect is in awkward transition, no longer funny and not yet English. Harold Rome's score is drab and his lyrics re semble either singing dialogue or nursery rhymes. Dancers are blown about the stage like vagrant autumn leaves, but Harold Lang and Sheree North (Bogen's folly) make a scorching sex rite out of What's In It for Me? As Miss Marmel-stein. a secretary with absolutely no sex appeal. Barbra Streisand trips the show into stray laughs. For the rest. Wholesale...
...pull off the suitcase when he saw that an East German railway guard was eying him. It was the same man Bernd had told he had no luggage. An African got off the train, too, and hoping he could not speak German, Bernd cried to him in broadest dialect: "Let me help you with your bag!" The baffled African, thinking Bernd was asking for help, obligingly took hold of the handle, and they shuffled past the Red guard...
...both black and white, knowing the outcomes, musing on strengths and weaknesses unseen by the players. It is to catalyze these dark musings, not to commemorate the players, that Stacton restages the old battles. Not surprisingly, his novels lack the painted scenery and speeches in all-purpose King James dialect that clutter other historical fiction. In A Signal Victory, the ironically titled tale of the Spanish conquest of the Maya civilization, there is not a line of dialogue. The book's most vivid presence is that of Author Stacton, brooding in mordant aphorisms about the uses of power. Everything...