Word: dialection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before the meeting of this preposterous pair that Pride of the Bimbos excels. Sayles has a deadly accurate ear for Southern cracker dialect ("Chick at awl?" asks a South Carolina gas-station attendant); the jabbering at a sand-lot baseball game ("Chuckerinthereissgahcantit"); and the good-ole-boy humor ("if that woman fell down a well, you could pump ugly for a week"). Best of all, the gruff friendship between Burns and the young son of a teammate is successfully played for both laughs and pathos; as it does in all initiation tales, the moment comes when the boy must measure...
Silver Showers. To prove this point, Matthiessen writes the novel (his fifth) as if he were on board the Eden and living on short rations. Every fictional resource is jettisoned except snippets of descriptive prose and huge chunks of West Indian pidgin dialect ("Dis de oniest place I ever see bonita on de inside of de reef"). He does not even allow himself access to his characters' thoughts. As far as this novel is concerned, they are what they...
Charlotte Chen, who is president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association, teaches Mandarin in the Saturday program. Her students are mostly second-generation Chinese who already know English. They want to learn the official Chinese dialect because of their interest in keeping their culture and heritage alive in this country. But Chen--who has always attended English-language schools, though she grew up in Taiwan--acts as more than a teacher. "It's a mutual thing," she says. "I never think of helping anyone. It's more than that. I work with high school girls, and we share...
Since his Godfather II role was Sicilian to its mol ten core, he spent six weeks in Sicily mastering not only the regional dialect but a specific local variant. Challenged to play the young immigrant who would become the Godfather already denned by Marlon Brando, De Niro armed himself with a video tape of Brando's performance. "I didn't want to do an imitation, but I want ed to make it believable that I could be him as a young man. I would see some little movements that he would do and try to link them with...
Miraculously, this man's wrenching tale sings of life's pleasures: honest work, the rhythm of seasons, the love of relatives and friends, the stubborn persistence of hope when it should have vanished. The Southern black dialect has chiefly been trivialized through minstrelsy or strained through literate translators. Shaw's unlettered language shames past caricatures; it is a marvel of utility, supple enough to take what the world offers each day and make it new. When he speaks of "the fall of the year," he is not reading from a calendar but describing what he has seen...