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Under cover of night, a white bus marked SHERIFF PRISONER TRANSPORT pulls into a sprawling concrete compound with a cargo of new fish--convict slang for first-timers. The passengers are segregated by iron grilles into minimum-, medium- and maximum-security seating. They cannot see the shadowy outline of the snow-capped Wasatch mountains because the only windows on the bus are narrow and situated high above their heads. The bus lurches to a stop, and an officer cheerily calls out, "Welcome to jail. Does anyone want to be handcuffed...
...worst recessions ever. Decades of foul politics played just as large a role in this catastrophe as the week of foul weather. Venezuela has the hemisphere's largest oil reserves and is America's No. 1 foreign source of crude. But because a corrupt elite, los cogollos (slang for big shots), has pillaged the country's oil wealth for generations, 80% of Venezuela's people live in poverty--and each year, searching for jobs, they scratch their way onto Caracas' perilous mountainside real estate. In those vertical, collapsible slums, potable water is a luxury, and violent crime is among...
...while someone else listens to an Eddie Murphy hit and another works out on a NordicTrack. One of the defenders makes a placatory gesture, offering the intruders a Cuisinart. Down the hall, a captive is being tortured by electric shock, his tormentor chatting amiably with him in American slang between jolts...
...funny character study, is probably the "realest" of the bunch and the best fall drama aimed at any demographic. But it is two decades removed from the way teens live now, with good reason: "We couldn't recreate high school today," creator Paul Feig cheerfully concedes. "All the slang would be 10 years...
Dunn's dry wit drew laughs from the audience. She compared the process of translating between languages to that of interpreting the slang of current college students...