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...more serious than misfired jokes is the Review's repeated charge that Dartmouth's black students expect, and get, preferential academic treatment. Last year Co-Founder Keeney Jones wrote an article assailing affirmative action in what purported to be black street slang. In its annual critique of the curriculum in September, the Review disdained giving either women's studies or black studies the detailed analysis accorded to more traditional academic departments. Asked the Review rhetorically: "If Jews or Serbo-Croatians claimed victim status, and bit people, would they get their own departments...
...heroes in Aksyonov's books were teen-age runaways who craved rokmuzyka, wore Keds and dzhinsy and talked a nonstop street slang larded with Americanisms, just like real-life Russians. Predictably, Aksyonov's very popularity with the young made him suspect to the Soviet literary Establishment. Yet he remained a member of the Union of Soviet Writers for 18 years...
...classic slang of the '60s is almost a dead language now. In unadulterated form it survives only under the protection of certain purists with long memories, heirs to the medieval tradition of monastic scribes. Their honorary abbot is Phil Donahue...
...slang cannot live forever on the past, no matter how magnificent it may have been. Slang needs to be new. Its life is brief, intense and slightly disreputable, like adolescence. Soon it either settles down and goes into the family business of the language (like taxi and cello and hi) or, more likely, slips off into oblivion, dead as Oscan and Manx. The evening news should probably broadcast brief obituaries of slang words that have passed on. The practice would prevent people from embarrassing themselves by saying things like swell or super. "Groovy, descendant of cool and hip, vanished from...
Your Eyes Only, made in 1981 for a "mere" $26 million (Moonraker cost $32 million), has yet to break even. Octopussy has a budget of $25 million to $30 million. When asked how expensive Never Say Never Again will be, Producer Schwartzman offers Hollywood slang: "We're on Route 20 and heading north." (Translation: up to $25 million.) Both films will be fighting for the moviegoer's attention against The Revenge of the Jedi (Part III of the Star Wars saga) and a swarm of aggressive kidflix. Will there be enough prurient adults around to push both Bond...