Word: idiom
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...Skinhead Hamlet is precisely what it sounds like: a telling of the classic tale transported into the idiom of British skinhead punk rockers of the late 1970s. The play opens with Hamlet (Dean Norris) spray painting the misspelled setting--"DENMAK"--on the wall. This Hamlet spends his time fighting, swilling beer and watching television, so, apropos of his offspring's habits, the Ghost (John Bottoms) grabs his attention by pre-empting an episode of Wheel of Fortune...
Donald employs new biographical sources, and he makes a persuasive case for Wolfe's idiom and energies. But he also acknowledges that his subject "wrote more bad prose than any other major writer I can think of." The only disputable word is major. The quotes from the novels -- not to say the novels themselves -- suggest the literary equivalent of a dinosaur: vast in structure, unoccupied by thought and, after all the ponderous effort, wholly extinct...
...grownups, we must regard John Hughes as her successor. His movies, like her young-adult novels, have good qualities. He knows what the teens' Top 40 moral issues are, and he places his stories in palpably realistic contexts. Not only do his kids speak up-to-the-minute adolescent idiom and illustrate the latest dress code perfectly, they attend clangorously class-conscious public high schools, whose unexamined values the protagonists must always challenge -- and defeat...
...Aussies refer to Conner as "Big Bad Dennis," but they regard him as a larrikin. In their singular idiom, a larrikin is someone with a highly developed sense of fun and mischief who is continuously in trouble and eternally forgiven. "I'm a larrikin?" Conner says. He likes that. In a perverse way, he has become an Australian hero, and there is an impression in Freo that even at their own expense, the Australians are ready to warm him with a chorus of "good on yer." Picturing the town without Cup or customers is a little sad, though. In Fremantle...
Translated into American idiom, the title reads A Z and Two Zeros, which, graphologically speaking, reads ZOO, or zoo, which is the common abbreviation for zoological park, a place where men keep animals for display...