Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strain on the black man and woman, it shows in various ways. Paul Laurence Dunbar, the black dialect poet, explained, "We Wear the Mask." That is one way of surviving; as a con man, a common figure in black fiction. Another way is to "disappear," to pass for white or otherwise become anonymous. The Invisible Man disappeared altogether, forging a life of an existential fact: since he was invisible to the white world anyway, why not go whole hog? The third way-separation-brings America back from fiction to reality. In a sense, separation often seems the most reasonable choice...
...some places, the IMF stands for something other than money. In Jamaican dialect--a strange concoction of English, French and native African languages--IMF last week stood for the question "Is Manley Fault...
...regularly tapped his home phone, forcing him to place calls from out-of-the-way booths; as an extra precaution, he conducted business in his native Sicilian dialect. Twice a week, law enforcement officials dutifully collected his trash. Digging through the coffee grounds and other garbage, they hit pay dirt: notes by Bonanno of phone conversations concerning his sons' business activities, which enabled federal authorities to piece together evidence that Bonanno and DiFilippi had conspired to withhold records from the grand jury and influence witnesses...
Travolta moved with strobe-lit energy in Saturday Night Fever, woofing his dialogue in a clipped, arrogant, street dialect that matched the simplicity and pant-leg vision of his character. But he brings none of that same energy to director James Bridges' Texas hoedown, which attempts to show where them high-paid redneck rig-works head when the lights go down on the Lone Star prairie. Without a central character who can do anything more than look dumb--convincingly--Bridges has nowhere to take his film...
...chosen you from among all people to help us," chanted a chorus of women over and over and over again in the Lingala dialect. A few feet away, tribesmen with arrow-pierced cheeks and clad in striped costumes performed a zebra dance. Others waved shining spears in greeting. Women of the Ekonda tribe, their breasts modestly covered for the occasion, swayed and sang to the rhythm of drums...