Word: gibberish
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...expulsion appeared to be the culmination of an inexplicable secret-police vendetta against him that has been going on for over a decade. In 1964, he was the victim of a trumped-up trial in Leningrad. He was accused of writing poetry-adjudged "gibberish" by the court-instead of engaging in "honest work." He was also attacked in the press for allegedly "nurturing a plan" to steal a plane and fly abroad. Sentenced to five years at hard labor in the Soviet far north, Brodsky became a cause celebre in Russia and the West. Released after 18 months...
...minute he takes his blindfold off, at which point he cannot help but fall in. The movie contains several similar gems of poetic understanding of human predicaments. Chaplin, forced to work as a singing waiter, loses the words to his song, and is forced to sing in multi-lingual gibberish, thus marking the debut of Chaplin's voice in films. By the film's end, the tramp and the gamine walk off in the sunset, no doubt looking for other great movies...
...Gibberish. Even the author admitted he had thrown together "enough material for four novels." Turgenev described A Raw Youth as "sour stuff-the stench of the sickroom, unprofitable gibberish." And on the occasion of this new edition, John Updike condemns the novel for a "penetrating badness that casts doubt over even the peaks of an author's accomplishment...
...literal and metaphorical imagery, Carroll transformed English into a kind of hallucinatory jabberwocky. Language goes berserk; it refuses to associate with reality. There are moments in Alice when all words seem to have dropped, like leaves, off the tree of meaning, and to be swirling around in gusts of gibberish. This provides one of the closest approximations to going insane that has ever been rendered on a public stage...
...economists, who judge what is happening by broad statistical indexes, the signs are increasingly clear that business is coming out of an inflationary downturn into a period of gradual but steady production growth and slower price rises. To many consumers, who reason from personal experience, the economists are talking gibberish; they expect a continued combination of recession and sharp inflation. The odd thing is that, in at least a few important respects, both are probably right...