Word: lingos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...escalator at the Metro's Stadium/Armory stop churned out Dead-heads into the muggy District afternoon, capitalism's sores ran openly. Professional scalpers wanted double the face value of tickets. Sadly, they had learned the some of the tour lingo and snapped, "I've got your miracle right here for 40 bucks." But the real Dead-head, with Friedman in mind and set lists in hand, pressed on; miracles are not bought from people draped in gold and beepers...
What kind of cockamamie lingo is slang anyway? Samuel Johnson railed against it, complaining about the corrupting influence on the English language of what in his day was called cant. Daniel Defoe hated it. Noah Webster, in his 1828 American Dictionary, defined slang as "low, vulgar, unmeaning." And in all the years since, legions of teachers have tried to eradicate...
With Tracy's younger sister Dinah (Jessica Yager) providing amusing, if at times annoying, comic relief, the play also sports a sense of humor to accompany its romantic and social entanglements. Yager seems a bit too comic at times, with her pig-tails and "rooty-tooty" lingo, but the scene in which she entertains the two reporters is one of the funniest of the play. As the lecherous old Uncle William, Greg Clayman is also quite amusing, and the skillful makeup job of Rosetta Lee makes his protrayal even more convincing. His handling of the standard mistaken-identity plot...
...Your Score will be better attuned to "the more current slang, lingo or cultural references appropriate for today's high school junior and senior," said editor Margot H. Herrera...
Face it: we're all competitors at heart, or we would never have come here in the first place. We respond not by finding serenity, but by turning things up a notch. Even the lingo reflects it: we don't join an organization, we "comp...