Word: idiom
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Republic of Virtue,” was a “complaint about...the mediocrity and parochial character of the punk scene,” Goldman says, laughing at himself. “Since I felt that I was very clever, it was all expressed in the idiom of the French Revolution”. Yakub broke up after an eighteen-month stint when band members wanted to pursue other interests—in Goldman’s case, political theory. “I have long since moved on,” Goldman says. “I have...
...finding an adequate Spanish counterpart for the word “jolly” (the closest we got was “bárbaro” – like “awesome,” but less painfully Californian surfer dude). Exhibit B: explaining the idiom, “to gird up one’s loins.” (My professor’s attempt: “Before battle, you secure everything here”—pats bottom—“so nothing falls...
...years since, Away has conquered the world it so delightfully critiques, becoming Australia's most performed play?not only in its home country, where it is a staple of high-school reading lists, but also throughout Asia, North America and New Zealand. "Although a glossary of Australian idiom is provided in the program," noted the New York Times in 1988, "the pain and burdens Mr. Gow's characters carry with them really need no translation." And as a 20th anniversary staging by the Queensland Theatre Company and Griffin (which returned the play to its stage birthplace in Sydney last week...
...scene crammed with guitarists and appraised by critics who claim that Pat Metheny and John Scofield have already closed the book on the instrument. It helped that Rosenwinkel came to prominence at the same time a group of young New York musicians was getting ready to redefine the jazz idiom. Rosenwinkel earned his stripes by gigging with other young lions such as pianist Brad Mehldau and bassist Larry Grenadier, who would both go on to explore pop and rock compositions through jazz. Rosenwinkel hasn’t been as overtly subversive, but he has certainly expanded his genre?...
...violence. However, the unadulterated gore and violence does more to repulse the viewer than draw him or her into the film. Wherever Charlie looks (bathroom stalls, lounge doors, shipping trucks), he sees the saying “As Wichita falls, so falls Wichita Falls.” The banal idiom represents so much of what the audience will find wrong with this movie: Ramis tries to make a point, but never explains its meaning, and the joke isn’t funny enough to keep repeating. Hopefully, this will flop and Ramis will learn to refuse scripts so far below...