Word: lowdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guys had the lowdown...
...likes to slip out on the street and play a tune or two because you can pick up cash quickly that way. Then he got his guitar, an expensive Martin, and after making sure there were no women in earshot, he swung into Catfish Blues, a song so lowdown nasty he said "I ain't gon' give you too much." Most of the verses were difficult to understand -- there was something about "belly to belly" and "skin to skin" in the middle there -- but it did sound downright filthy nonetheless. It gave you the feeling you had been caught peeking...
...joke, but they have a point. Her sampling techniques were less than impressive and some of her generalizations seem based on insufficient authority. (Many Purdue students, she states, "drink, and drink heavily.") Other conclusions seem applicable to just about any place but are offered as the lowdown on particular institutions. (Parents of the students at Northwestern are "directly responsible" for pushing their children in particular career paths.) Even so, Birnbach's guide performs a certain service by focusing more than other volumes on what students should expect outside the classroom and off the campus. Moreover, she maintains, "I wrote...
...Yellow Rose could be more than a prairiefied Dallas. NBC says the series is "in the tradition of Giant and Hud, "and it is. It is also in the Saturday-night graveyard slot, so it will have to corral an audience quickly. The Yellow Rose deserves a shot: this lowdown hoedown is the fall's juiciest new show. -By Richard Corliss
...Papp's humdrum direction, only the moments of lowdown violence stand out. Hamlet stabs Polonius (George Hall) as he stands behind the arras not once but repeatedly in an orgiastic frenzy. In the dueling finale with Laertes, Venora kicks him in the rear, scarcely the mark of the "noble Dane." In the bedroom scene, this Hamlet pummels Queen Gertrude (Kathleen Widdoes) so bruisingly that when the poignant line "How is it with you, lady?" is uttered, the audience breaks into semi-suppressed laughter, having witnessed the beating the lady has taken...