Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...straight. I don't think that the expression has anything to do with saliva. It originated, I believe, among the darkies of the South and the correct phrasing-without dialect-is "spirit and image." It was originally used in speaking of someone whose father had passed on-and the colored folks would say-"the very spi't an' image of his daddy...
...gubment," or government, of Arkansas begins an upcoming legislative "spatial" (special) session called by Governor Bill Clinton, observers unfamiliar with Southern political dialect will have available the next best thing to simultaneous translation: a just published paperback of 35 uproarious pages titled The Southern Legislative Dictionary...
...recent Sunday in the village of Kumkwane, members of the Bakwena tribe proudly presented 15 babies to be baptized by their esteemed guest. After the goats were cleared from the church, Merriweather preached, in impeccable Setswana, of God's love and read Scriptures translated into the local dialect by Robert Moffat, Livingstone's father-in-law. Meanwhile, Merriweather's wife taught Sunday school to the children...
DIED. Freeman Gosden, 83, the Virginia-born white who played the straight and solid Amos to the late Charles Correll's gullible Andy in the Negro-dialect comedy radio show that was a national craze for most of its 31 -year run; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Gosden also did the voices of the bamboozling George "Kingfish" Stevens and the shuffling Lightnin' until the show succumbed to poor ratings...
...Alice until 1980). He had directed her in a Schisgal play, All over Town. When he and Pollack decided that Dorothy could have a Southern accent like Holliday's, Hoffman got in touch with her and she coached him. Says Hoffman: "It wasn't just the dialect, it was this other thing she has: she is a very tough lady, she is uncompromising." After attitudes came makeup and dress. "If I were a woman, I know I'd want to be as attractive as possible. I get offended when I see comediennes dehumanizing themselves...