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...First Officer Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), a pointy-eared half human, half Vulcanite who has become a cult unto himself. Many of the new Spock generation attending the convention wore plastic ears like their hero and sported buttons boasting I GROCK MR. SPOCK-"grock," Spockies explained, being sci-fi lingo for "dig without letup...
...Holder was determined to convey "the full richness of black culture. Black lingo is beautiful." He adds: "I told the actors to speak it as if they were doing Shakespeare." He modeled the reunion of the Good Witches of the North and the South on a vision of "Josephine Baker and Lena Horne meeting in London after they hadn't seen each other in years...
...hard not to laugh at some of Hope's songs. After all, a can-can and an Andrews Sisters number and an Astair/Rogers duet could not be more out of place in a nineteenth century saloon. But some of Hope's number breech the gap between hoedown and courtroom lingo to produce some genuinely humorous lines...
This is funny in a mechanical way, but it is more interesting as a deliberate contrast to the country-speech patterns still heard in black city lingo, and to the folklore half believed in and half smiled at. "Kill a frog or toad, dry him out completely in the sun . . . among his bones will be one that resembles a fish hook ... To win your intended lover, hook the fishbone into his clothing. . ." Faith Cross, a backwoods believer, journeys to Chicago and becomes first a wholehearted whore, then an adipose housewife, anesthetized by hair spray and appliance hum, then, cast...
...rewrite the Gettysburg Address in Eisenhowerese: "I haven't checked these figures, but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental setup here in this country...") The private sector was as confusing as the federal. It was the time of ad lingo, when ideas were things that were played by ear, came off the top of the head, were run up flagpoles or got flown by the seat of the pants. The headlines hawked foreign news that seemed simultaneously remote and menacing. With scarcely a pause, World War II became the cold...