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...microphoto-graphed capillaries of live animals. But as the price of admission, the audience had to face a tasteless jangle of gimmicks: a Superman-like "Hemo" to personify blood, dialect comedy, crude mechanical cartoon analogies of circulatory functions ("groceries and garbage"), and a screenful of Disney-like animals spouting slang. In a coy story-within-a-story device, a researcher (Dr. Frank Baxter) and a fiction writer (Richard Carlson) tried to make their material palatable to the cloddish cartoon animals. The total effect of Hemo was unhappily that of a choice filet mignon smothered with gobs of marshmallow sauce...
From there out the movie's scenes explain, without too much professional slang and yet without talking down to the cheap seats, how Jim came to see the irony of the words he once hurled in anger at his psychiatrist (Adam Williams): "Listen! If it hadn't been for [my father] standing behind me and pushing me and driving me, I wouldn't be where I am today...
...Fadiman: "With authoritative teachers by the thousands daily and nightly teaching Televenglish to 170 million students, it is likely that in 50 years the Televenglish professor will be examining an obsolescent minority idiom known as English, just as today the academic linguist studies the argot of thieves or the slang of the hashhouse counterman...
German-born Rudolph Dirks was the first U.S. cartoonist to develop a plot with a series of consecutive panels and a permanent cast of characters, the first to enclose all his dialogue in balloons. His Kids, christened Katzenjammer (German slang for hangover) by a Journal editor, became a classic over Dirks's protests. "People will get sick of this stuff," he insisted. But the kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil...
...career of onetime Hillbilly Singer Haley, 31, has picked up speed. He has scheduled a major U.S. TV appearance, expects to play Las Vegas. The credit for his new good fortune he attributes solely to the perception of the British teenager, who has embraced rock 'n' roll slang as enthusiastically as he has the music. An Oxonian departing the university has been overheard saying goodbye to his dean in the words: "See you later, alma mater...