Word: jargoning
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Outgoing. To overcome that sadness, the management seems relentlessly determined to ensure that everyone is cheerfully with it. There is much jargon about the "dynamics of member interaction." What kind of interactors? "We want an outgoing, social person," says Membership Coordinator Robing Raderman. "Someone who will be an asset." Activities Director David Malachowski says: "We were going to require members to take at least one seminar [at $10 a session], but since our yoga and group-encounter classes are already oversubscribed, we have done away with compulsion." Malachowski plans to organize "a lot of outdoor sleeping activity-back to nature...
Still, the blame for turning the viewer's idle mind into a devil's workshop of speculation is not entirely Greene's. The author of the original hit play, John-Michael Tebelak, collaborated with him on a screenplay that finds no equivalent in hippie jargon for the exalted language of the Bible. Instead it offers, among other conceits, the Lazarus legend climaxed with a pie in the face. Stephen Schwartz's score is perfectly suited to this level of imitation rock. "God save the people . . ./ Save the people from despair," one of Schwartz's lyrics...
...disputes that still swirl around his memory. Author Gendzier succumbs to what amounts to a left-wing psychic disorder in its own right: the compulsion to pursue and defend Fanon's reputation through increasingly irrelevant intricacies. She does this in a prose crippled by repetition and neo-Marxist jargon. Fanon himself quickly escapes her-and the reader is glad to follow him. · Horace Judson
Kyle's announcement was unethical and represented an attempt to abridge the community's right to be informed on an important issue. She deliberately waited until the meeting was underway to preclude discussion of her edict. Her employment of journalistic jargon was a clumsy effort to mask an attempted intimidation of the representatives of the press present...
...says, "the thought of getting up never even entered my mind." Stuart links Wattstax together with some hilarious monologues by Comic Richard Pryor, who wrings laughs from such shared frustration and humiliation. His stories of everyday hassling, of being regularly rousted by the cops, are spun out in street jargon with a kind of furious cool. What makes the jokes sting is not punch lines but lethal accuracy...