Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Italian Director Lina Wertmuller's first English-language picture went by a title so long that some moviegoers could not finish lip reading it: The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain. It also suffered from an insurmountable problem: for the first time American audiences could understand what Wertmuller was saying. Warner Bros., which had plans to finance two other Wertmuller pictures, quietly changed its mind and gave her a map of Rome. One of the few movies able to quell the mind-numbing trend was Paul Mazursky's marvelous...
ENGAGED. Chris Evert, 24, queen of women's tennis; and John Lloyd, 24, English tennis pro; in Dania...
...great leap from the North American chili-tortilla parlor to the true provincial cuisine of Mexico. In fact, it would take years for the most diligent gringo to understand or annotate this peasant-rooted cuisine of peppers and cornmeal, arroz, barbacoa and relleno. Diana Kennedy, English by birth and Mexicana by persuasion, invested a large part of her life tasting and testing south of the border to produce The Cuisines of Mexico in 1972. She spent five more years researching the 1978 followup, Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico (Harper & Row; 288 pages; $12.95). The result, for novice...
Kansas City (They got a crazy way of lovin' there and I'm gonna get me some). They wrote it. And Charlie Brown (Who walks in the classroom cool and slow?/ Who calls the English teacher "Daddy-O"?). They wrote that too. As well as Searchin'. And Poison Ivy (You 're gonna need an ocean/ Of Calamine lotion ...). And Smokey Joe's Cafe. And Yakety Yak. And Saved...
...Shaw could be divided into four elements, they might be fire, music, mind and rhetoric. The fire and music are quenched in this revival; the mind and rhetoric are unquenchable, as is Shaw's master passion, his abiding love for the English tongue...