Word: slanging
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...help create the futuristic look, sound and culture of 2020, longtime hip-hop fan Eglee drew on that music's mix-and-match aesthetic, slang and insistent beat to capture his vision. He even got Public Enemy's Chuck D to do the theme. "We wanted a variegated sound landscape, like our human landscape," Eglee says...
That said, this is the one fall series most likely to inspire you to buy a big-screen television. The two-hour pilot explodes with a flashback to Max's escape from a government compound in a high-volume snowmobile chase. The script is mixed: the slang can be forced, the attempts at Buffy-esque humor sometimes fall flat. But it yields up one stunning visual after another--Max perched atop a decrepit Space Needle; nine-year-old Max holding her breath under a frozen lake; Max coolly wheeling Logan down a hospital corridor as an explosion silhouettes her from...
...language - not simply its slang, which is as likely to be heard in Yale dorm rooms as on inner-city street corners, but its idiom, which involves combining the spoken (or screamed) word with a pastiche of musical elements drawn from previous songs and styles reassembled in new and unique combinations - is not only the preeminent musical genre of a generation, it's also a complex, ever-evolving organism that has spawned countless dialects that are constantly in conversation with one another...
STAMP OUT THAT PHRASE The Dictionary of American Slang defines "to go postal" as "to succumb to tension and fatigue; lose it, stress out." Sound harmless? Not to the U.S. Postal Service, which is doing its best to send the phrase packing. A history...
...daughter of a Pixar employee and plays the lead human. "We initially brought her in just for scratch track, but she's so appealing that we kept bringing her in, giving her lots of candy and using whatever sounds she made." Is "candy" the new geek-slang for stock options...