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...Enter Shortz, nearly 40 years younger than Maleska, and eager to revive the Times' most carefully studied page. A John XXIII to Maleska's Pius XII, Shortz embraced the modern: slang, hipper pop references, more devious wordsmanship. He also instituted a sliding scale of difficulty for the puzzle week: the easiest one on Monday and Tuesday, the most challenging on Friday and Saturday...
...Mercer's gift was for insinuating slang and Southern patois into his songs; his writing voice, like his vocal style, was that of a hip yokel. The songs performed at the Y by a quartet of soloists (Christine Ebersole, Jason Graae, Lewis Cleale and Amber Edwards) and, at the end, host Charles Osgood, displayed Mercer's ability to be sho'-nuff without showing off. "Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?" gets rhymes out of "mountains I clum ? oceans I swum." Another Oscar winner, "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening," swings easy with "In the shank of the night...
Ryan, a senior, sees no reason not to dole out his stash of speed—slang for the stimulant medications used to treat ADD—free of charge to friends who ask for it. In fact, Ryan says, it would seem almost selfish not to share, since he is not sure he needs Adderall any more than the next...
...Madea’s Family Reunion”), an underprivileged girl from the Crenshaw district of Los Angeles, takes on the prestigious spelling bee. Through her training, she learns more than just etymology—she receives an invaluable lesson about motivation, balancing proper English and slang, and even pre-pubescent love.Director Doug Atchison certainly had to go to great lengths to get this inspirational drama released. Surprisingly, Starbucks Entertainment, a subsidiary of the well-known coffee chain, is a major driving force behind the movie. As a consequence, you’ve probably noticed that the movie title...
...envision Hummel figurine collections in our future. The site's fans call themselves "cutologists," and they have composed a careful list of cute rules, including "small ear to head ratio" (rule #15) and "a thing, accompanied by a smaller version of that thing, is always cute" (rule #7). That slang has grown out of the commenting community of cutologists is not surprising; that someone compiled a list of definitions is slightly more so. (I admit I have incorporated "redonk" - the comic-book sound-effect version of "ridiculous" - into my own vocabulary...