Word: outta
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...example. Five brain-dead members of an unknown California trash metal band suddenly find themselves splashed all over MTV. Or take Tony Gubba, our new British columnist obsessed with American popular culture and shitty sitcoms. "Tony" (not his real name) came to Harvard by way of Oxford (outta nowhere, for all practical purposes), borrowed an English game show host's moniker and nowadays audits classes and bemoans the dearth of curse words on U.S. television. So sit back, and never mind the ants crawling all over the Square or all over this magazine. You're stuck with them...
Perhaps in an age of powerful computers and fast traveling information, we might as well get used to the idea that just about whatever we do--down to every little phone call we make--is ultimately discoverable by other people. Privacy? Freedom? Forget 'em. They're outta here...
Nothing makes a moviegoer feel more isolated than sitting stony-faced through a comedy that makes the rest of the audience laugh and cheer. Am I blind? Or are they seeing things? With the new hit MY COUSIN VINNY, we vote for seeing things. This fish-outta-wautta farce plops a rude Italo-American (Joe Pesci) into the cracker barrel of an Alabama town to defend his cousin (Ralph Macchio) on a murder rap. Pesci, a vacuum-packed version of all Three Stooges, struts and mugs, but gets most of his laughs with his preposterous coiffure (Mr. Pesci's hair...
Doruk E. Ozgediz '95, for example, was busy watching the Washington/Detroit football game on Sunday. "I've got my priorities straight," he said, On exams, he added, "You gotta take 'em, you gotta get 'em over with so you can get outta here...
...Haven't you got anything in American?' " Other BBC broadcasters are doing their best to adopt American-style slang. A budding British John Madden describing a soccer game dustup not long ago told listeners that an injured player was "stretchered" off the field. Next time, try "Boom! He's outta there...