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...existing literary works, much as Shakespeare did with Henry V and Julius Caesar. People shouldn't be surprised that a commoner should write so knowingly of the nobility. All playwrights wrote about aristocrats. Says Bate: "What is much harder to imagine is an aristocrat like Oxford reproducing the slang of the common tavern or the technicalities of glovemaking...
...Boston's newest emags, Stuff@night, is throwing its first anniversary party. The ads say, "All of Boston's Kens and Barbies are invited to a fabu Hollywood Extravaganza." Bonus points awarded for plastic hair, driving up in pink Mattel sedan and use of wanna-be Californian slang? 10:30 p.m., Avalon, 15 Lansdowne...
...Wyoming somewhat: it can be a violent place, and most people I've met there don't like homosexuals. But the deliberate savagery of this murder, a hate crime, shocked people, because, for the most part, they have what the writer William S. Burroughs '36, adopting a century-old slang word for honest thieves, appropriated to his own purpose. They're Johnsons--folk who mind their own business and let others do the same...
...HAMZAH and HASHEM, the sons of Hussein's current wife, LISA HALABI, known as Queen Noor, who comes from a Lebanese-American family. Lately, Hussein has been grooming Hamzah. The 18-year-old frequently accompanies his father to official functions, and he is being taught how to speak the slang of the Bedouin tribes, an important constituency for the Hashemite dynasty. On Hamzah's 18th birthday, Hussein published a message to his son, reminding him that at that age he had taken on his full duties as King. But Hassan has his own son, RASHID, 19, who was conspicuously...
...Hamzah and Hashem, the sons of Hussein's current wife, Lisa Halaby, known as Queen Noor, who comes from a Lebanese-American family. Lately, Hussein has been grooming Hamzah. The 18-year-old frequently accompanies his father to official functions, and he is being taught how to speak the slang of the Bedouin tribes, an important constituency for the Hashemite dynasty. On Hamzah's 18th birthday, Hussein published a message to his son, reminding him that at that age he had taken on his full duties as King...