Word: idiom
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...heard around Boston. Throughout the novel, without quaintness or self-parody, he is able to sustain long arias of criminal shoptalk. The reason is that he never merely transcribes. Like Salinger and Raymond Chandler, his ear is really for mental processes. All Eddie's friends use the same idiom, but it is always easy to know which one is talking...
...Spedding, Pete Winfield, and others. The performance of everyone, especially producer Philippe Rault, is absolutely flawless; the juxtaposition of early Forties blues structure with ultramodern instrumentation and arrangement completely transcends the concept of mere revival. It is a tour de force of textural and harmonic complexity within the blues idiom. On side one, expatriate Memphis Slim tells the story of his birth in Tennessee, migration to Chicago, and eventual emigration to France. Side two presents Slim's commentary on contemporary America, in such songs as "Youth Wants to Know," "Chicago Seven," and "Mason Dixon Line." This album...
...brothers would never dare to touch. Begun in the mid-'60s, the undergrounds, or head comic books, such as Zap and Despair and strips in papers like the Berkeley Barb and Manhattan's East Village Other, speak for the counterculture in a zany, raunchy and often obscene idiom. In one issue of the East Village Other, a strip depicts an Army company in Viet Nam. The sergeant's command "Present arms!" literally brings out the arms of the men in his company, heroin addicts all. Later, when all of the men are dead of overdoses -including...
...Japanese Idiom...
...dimension of psychology, the step that may at last take us beyond a primitive mind/body empiricism, could well be semantic." He even crowds his way into the biological revolution: "It may be that human speech is in some way a counterpart to that decoding and translation of the neurochemical idiom which defines and perpetuates our biological existence...