Word: jiving
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Olmos pauses to let the laughter die down. His jive, cajoling pep talk has begun to win the men over, but more important, he has convinced them that he really cares. The impression is no public relations put-on. Deeply committed to helping the down-and-out, Olmos for the past ten years has taken his rap to hospitals, schools, Indian reservations, detention centers, libraries and veterans hospitals across the country. "It's addictive," he explains. "A few hours of energy come back in waves for years. It's a wonderful feeling to make people forget about themselves...
Olmos was right on the wavelength of "El Pachuco," the strutting, posing, super-macho narrator and mordant conscience of the story. "I spoke in calo, street jive from the streets of East L.A. -- a mix of Spanish, English and Gypsy," he says. "They asked me if I could dance, and I hit a perfect set of splits, turning the brim of my hat as I came up." He got the part...
...absurdity. Howard Beach mobsters like the Chief and Frankie Five Hundred seem to be overdone holdovers from Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1969). The kinks in New York's welfare bureaucracy are authentic and darkly humorous, but the black characters are not developed beyond their jive. Father D'Arcy's mission is unfocused, his misadventures a blur, and his conversion from guardian of orthodoxy to radical activist unbelievable, even for farce. Breslin's populist reflexes and ability to throw a punchy line remain in good working order, but this time it seems he got indignant...
...American government and most other governments in the course of waging wars and policing crimes. Is Harvard then to refuse money from all federal agencies, since the government has done things in the past which do not jive with Harvard's supposed mission as liberal institution? The CIA is not South Africa, from which many American companies have divested in order to protest the actions of the apartheid regime. There is no moral basis, then, for rejecting money from the CIA but accepting it basically without restriction from all other sectors in society--industries, other government agencies, foundations and wealthy...
...more challenging and more realistic; it helped them learn as much as it tantalized them with visions of wealth. Just like the elementary school assignment in which you have to write a business letter which will actually be mailed, Edelman was doing his best to make the classroom exercise jive with the real world. And in the corporate universe, takeovers and raids are not intellectual enterprises; they're business ventures which seek to turn a profit for the raider...