Word: idiom
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...spaceman who confronted atom bombs as early as 1939, no longer plies the interplanetary routes. But Flash Gordon still zips through space at supersonic speed on the trail of highflying gangsters, while Prince Valiant moves at a snail's pace through meticulously drawn medieval sagas. And the whole idiom has been parodied by Li'I Abner, in which a collection of bulbous-nosed, ham-handed hillbillies makes monkeys out of assorted stuffed shirts-judges, politicians, business tycoons-who are unlucky enough to stumble upon the idyllic world of Dogpatch. The grandmummy of soap-opera strips, Mary Worth...
...Vinci is famous for one female smile, Whistler for his mother. Degas captured girlishness from gawky grace to the glamorous fall from it. "So why is it unusual that I paint women?" asks Willem de Kooning, at 60 the foremost U.S. artist still working vigorously in the abstract expressionist idiom...
Fully half the Yale Russian Chorus's program consisted of conductor Denis Mickiewicz's excellent arrangements. He showed an instinctively sure touch with the Russian folk idiom, and a good understanding of men's voices. The only exception to this was a modulation for solo tenor in "Kalinka," which must have been as uncomfortable for the singer as it was for the audience. Mr. Mickiewicz's chordal vocabulary was thankfully traditional, with the unfortunate exception of "A Maiden's Heart...
...beaming Director Petr Noskov reports that Bolshevichka's profit margin has risen to 7%, that the average pay is up from $94 a month to $110, and that the factory is now making better suits at a cheaper price ($85 v. $96) and are (oh, that Capitalist idiom) "selling like hot cakes...
...marriage of classical mood and modern idiom at the heart of his work has not proved easy for Gregory: his lifetime output numbers fewer than 100 poems, none of them long. But at its best, the combination demonstrates consuming intelligence and sinewy strength. In his own phrase, his art can be "fire that flames upon an iron tree," and his poems are often