Word: idiom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clarity and coherence. As a full-fledged (though nonpracticing) doctor, he certainly does not inflate pot; he seems to see it simply as a pleasurable, nonaddictive drug somewhat less harmful than alcohol. Moreover, Michael has a kid brother Douglas, a student with a fine ear for the funky idiom of youth plus patent expertise about marijuana as a commodity and a mystique. Combining their talents under the pseudonym "Michael Douglas," the Crichton boys manufactured Dealing in a matter of months...
...have objections to either, there's a lot of objectionable material in Jesus Christ Superstar. This recorded "rock opera" makes an honest and often very interesting attempt to do three difficult things: reinterpret the events of the last week of Christ's life, set the new interpretation into the idiom of mass culture with modern language and characterizations that carry parallels in rock-culture and contemporary politics, and put the result into the form of conventional opera, orchestrated with rock music...
...unfurls. And unfurls. For 21 hours Little Big Man turns the tableaux on nearly every aspect of Western man. Thomas Berger's panoramic novel owed its salinity to an immediate relative, Huckleberry Finn, from which it ransacked idiom and hyperbole by the chapterful. Like Huck, young Jack had no social insight; he accepted violence and duplicity the way he regarded sleet and fire−as aspects of earthly life. The film happily preserves the chronicle's innocence, if not its exact text...
...School is one of the most easily overlooked yet most innovative graduate schools in the University. It is also a financial disaster area, or in the Harvard idiom, a bottomless...
Guston's obvious debts are to American graphic art, to "some of the comic strips I used to really love-Mutt and Jeff, and Krazy Kat." But the idiom is overloaded to the edge of portentousness. It is as if Guston flipped back to the late '30s, when he was a WPA muralist -those remote days when it was still believed that political comment could give art relevance...