Word: shoptalking
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...Laurie, his wife, and two other married couples form the immediate entourage of a "dinosaur" of a film producer called K.L. They have fled their employer for a secret respite in Amsterdam, but they spend most of the evening talking about him and one another. Apart from the intramural shoptalk, the chitchat goes something like this. Dan: "Have you ever thought of airlines for homosexuals?" Laurie: "I say: what a splendid idea. You could call it El Fag Airlines...
Fellow nurses jostled for their autographs. Much as they obviously enjoyed the limelight, they discussed their experience in cool, shoptalk tones, insisting that a heart transplant is really just another open-heart operation-an area of medicine in which they all are veterans...
...column at the left of this page-in shoptalk called the masthead-there appears a new category: Reporters. The ten people listed there are cast as specialists who will report on one specific subject for a particular section of the magazine. Their mission is to be expert in their fields and through precise reporting add to the expertise that writers and editors bring to their sections. They are not built-in experts in the old-fashioned sense but young, interested, involved journalists who are developing a specialty...
Root of Rage. The new Manheim translation makes more accessible to U.S. readers the astonishing virtuosity of Céline's style, which broke out of the formal gavotte of French grammar and syntax-and used all the resources of thieves' argot, slum slang, and the shoptalk of pimps, prostitutes, bums, and pickpockets-to demonstrate the power and quality of his love of life and hatred for those who must live it. Coprological images-excrement, pus, gangrene, all the humiliating ironies of bodily decay-crowded this doctor's mind. Still, his language no longer shocks; today...
...every play was botched. Along the way, the players came to like him and confide in him, partly because he took their skills as seriously as they did. Their descriptions of the intricacies of the various positions and their special moments of triumph are as authentic as only shoptalk can be. Said a player of the awesome Night Train Lane: "He's got pipes for legs, all bone, with just strings of muscle holding him together." Once, after being tackled, Y. A. Tittle "got off the ground and reeled back to the huddle and finally said, 'Christ...