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There may be a deeper reason for the relative decline of slang. Standard English is losing prestige and even legitimacy. Therefore, deviations from the "correct" also lose some of their force. Slang forfeits a little of its renegade quality, its outlaw savor. If slang is no longer a kind of sin, it cannot be as much fun as it once...
...President sat down a fortnight ago at his ranch to give one of his radio exhortations. When he saw the mike, he was seized by a latent actor's impulse to perform. And because the topic of the hour was the Polish government's move to outlaw Solidarity, his molten aversion to Communism bubbled to the surface. To test the sound equipment and his own pipes, he said firmly: "My fellow Americans, yesterday the Polish government, a military dictatorship, a bunch of no-good lousy bums...
...Irony in the Polish government's decision last Friday to officially ban the Solidarity Union. After all, since martial law was imposed in December, more than 600 Solidarity officials have been interned and the union's activities suspended. What, you could ask, was there left to outlaw...
...that Oates has undertaken to recount the saga of the five nubile Zinn sisters of Bloodsmoor Valley, Pa., circa 1880. For these young ladies, the trajectory of love follows the customarily lunatic lines of an Oates romance. The youngest Zinn, Deirdre, is snatched away by a stranger in "an outlaw balloon of sinister black-silken hue" as she sits crocheting in a gazebo. Sister Malvinia escapes the toils of Victorian family life in her own way: she makes a career as an actress and is courted by a singularly repulsive Mark Twain. Octavia marries a closet sadist and feather...
...antiabortion forces hurt their own cause by bickering over which approach to take. Some favored a constitutional amendment, sponsored by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, that would give states and the Federal Government authority to outlaw abortion. The Hatch Amendment, if passed, would directly overturn a 1973 Supreme Court decision establishing the constitutional right to an abortion, but it would require approval by two-thirds of both chambers and three-fourths of the states. Others favored the more radical approach, proposed by Helms, of simply passing a law stating that "life," as protected by the Constitution, begins at conception...