Word: gibberish
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...finitude's excessive nature, not only because of the inappropriability of its meaning but, as the experience of sheer exposition, because of the way it refuses to disclose itself fully." One would bet $5 that neither David Ross nor anyone else connected with the Biennial could say what such gibberish might mean or translate it into clear English. But that would be a hegemonic transgression on the integrity of marginal language, right...
Less inspired are the lyrics, which range from gibberish to p.c. platitudes ("Someday we shall all be one"). Only on Blue Nun, a snickering satire of middle-class oenophiles, and Pass the Mic, a put-down of rival rappers who "haven't got a thing to say," do the Beasties show a flash of their old brattiness. At such moments they simultaneously capture and embody the giddy social vertigo of livin' large...
Suddenly the audience slips into the world of gibberish in which Joycean characters--and O'Neill it seems--thrive, a world of swiftly tilting pitch and agrammatical word structures too bizarre to be termed sentences. It is a testament to O'Neill's virtuosity that the audience watches him make unintelligible sounds yet is still intuitively mesmerized...
James Kinsella, author of Covering the Plague: AIDS & the American Media (Rutgers University Press; $22.95) aptly catalogs journalism's sins in this area. He faults newspapers for serving up vague gibberish about the exchange of "bodily fluids" instead of explaining AIDS transmission in easily understood terms. He criticizes the gay press for tiptoeing around the story initially and -- in at least one case -- for focusing on a featherbrained medical-conspiracy angle. He condemns the TV networks for using fuzzy, ambiguous language. He raps the minority press for largely ignoring the story, and the newsmagazines for coming to it late...
...their prey with radar beams and follow the echoes toward the target. One way to divert a missile flying along a radar beam is to fire off a burst of metallic chaff particles. They cause the missile's radar guidance system to go haywire amid a blizzard of electronic gibberish...