Word: dialectics
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...ordinary teenagers, the ones who don't get movies made about them, think and feel: why the nerd would carry a fake ID ("So I can vote"), and why the deb would finally be nice to the strange girl (" 'Cause you're letting me"). He has learned their dialect and decoded it for sympathetic adults. With a minimum of genre pandering--only one Footloose dance imitation , --and with the help of his gifted young ensemble, Hughes shows there is a life form after teenpix. It is called goodpix...
...ancestors resembled argon, the author explains, because it is an inactive gas: "They were inert in their inner spirits, inclined to disinterested speculation, witty discourses, elegant, sophisticated and gratuitous discussion." Like argon, the Piedmont Jews behaved eccentrically, never combining with other elements. They spoke the rough Piedmontese dialect inlaid with Hebrew --"sacred and solemn, geologic, polished smooth by the millennia like the bed of a glacier." As deftly translated by Raymond Rosenthal, the oddities of speech are a delight. So is the "inexplicable imprecation" for which Levi's great-grandfather was famous: "May he have an accident shaped like...
DIED. Eduardo De Filippo, 84, Italian actor, director, playwright and maestro of the still active dialect theater of Naples, whose boisterous, sentimental tragicomedies, including Millionaire Naples (1945), Filumena Marturano (1946) and Inner Voices (1948), celebrated the earthy Neapolitan zest for life; of kidney failure; in Rome. Two of his screenplays, a segment of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), and Marriage-Italian Style (1964), adapted from Filumena, both starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and directed by Vittorio De Sica, were among Italy's funniest film comedies of the 1960s...
...seated humanity." At the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, he greeted a crowd of more than 3,000 colorfully garbed Indians and Eskimos, using seven native languages ranging from Algonquin and Micmac to Mohawk and a passable Inuit (Eskimo) dialect. In the tiny Newfoundland community of Flatrock (pop. 869), John Paul blessed local codfishing boats from a seaside platform, then radioed, "Good fishing, safe passage and God's blessing" to the fishermen...
...asked him if she spoke English because I didn't speak their Berber dialect, but he said that didn't matter," laughs Herzberg...