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Died. Cecil Day-Lewis, 68, Irish-born critic, novelist and poet laureate of England; of cancer; in Hertfordshire, England. C. Day-Lewis came to prominence during the '30s as one of the Oxford poets, a group that included W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender. His work mixed slang, sardonic wit and radical thought in poetic-political commentary. By 1968 Day-Lewis had moved far enough away from Marxism to become poet laureate, but he enjoyed his greatest popularity as Nicholas Blake, the pseudonym he used in writing more than a score of moneymaking detective stories...
...Honker" is rodeo slang that freely translates either as "dangerous bull" (the animal, not the conversational variety) or as a particularly accommodating woman. Examples of each species are at large in The Honkers, and they cause no end of mischief. Whether of the two-or four-legged variety, they have a habit of throwing the feckless hero, Lew Lathrop (James Coburn), into a ringtail loop...
Rational response is wasted here. And yet continued silence is impossible. All the facts may not be in on black inferiority, but there is a ghetto slang game that might assist the Herrnsteins, Jensens, and Newmans uncover the missing data. Simply stated gentlemen, why don't you ask your mothers? Derrick A. Bell Professor...
...that the photographer's interest may not have been entirely journalistic when she introduced into the evidence a Christmas card from Galella. It depicted a short Santa apparently giving him money, with the legend: "The Payoff, starring Aristotle Onassis as Santa and Ron Galella as the Paparazzo" (Italian slang for freelance photographer...
...fifteen-year-old leader of a street gang, one of many which terrorize unwary citizens in poorly-policed night hours. He is a sadistic punk, only a little better than the authority figures he confronts, and no better than the elders he kills and rapes. If his NADSAT slang, composed of Russian, rock and road talk, is an attractive reaction against official jargon, the scientific tomes of a donnish type and the antique knick-knacks collected by a starry old lady are more touching attempts to preserve personal cultural interests. Aside from the attractions of the language, Burgess uses Alex...