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...human beings. You deserve all the rights that any Americans have," she told fellow immigrants, speaking in both English and the Mandarin Chinese dialect...
...series of events from the 26 volumes of the Warren Report. Because this is fiction, the outlines of Oswald and of the events are clear. Everything in the novel has a hard factual edge. Everything sounds reported, even what must be pure speculation. When the characters descend into dialect or private associations, DeLillo often lets his narrative voice accompany them, but this is not a relaxation of his distant, researched style. The diction or the sentence structure may change, but the tone never slips; DeLillo remains detached...
...Olympic officials are trying to stare down one looming controversy as the opening ceremonies approach. A tribe of Indians, the Lubicon Lake Band from northern Alberta, is protesting the Games to bring $ attention to a century-old unsettled land claim. "I support their claim," says Klein, who speaks a dialect of the Blackfoot language. "I oppose their methods." Local police and the Mounties are prepared for demonstrations -- and for the ever present threat of international terrorism. Although security experts privately believe the risk posed by terrorists is low, they are taking no chances. The Olympic Village has been surrounded...
Dragon is a challenging play, but it is too long to retain rapt audience attention, and it does demand constant alertness to decipher dialect. But Sinophiles and drama enthusiasts will appreciate this spicy story of Chinatown challenge...
...hopeless cause, a butterfly of an adverb that has turned into the caterpillar it-is-to-be-hoped, which RHD-II proclaims "fully standard." And because many people wrongly consider the past tense of sneak to be snuck (instead of sneaked), the word has been promoted from "chiefly dialect" in RHD-I to full respectability here...