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When Tamika explains that the sensitivity plant is so named because it closes when you touch it, one young child cries out, "That's phat!" combining her childish wonder with hip street slang...
...term "third rail" is political slang for issues that are sidetracked because they are politically charged and likely to deter voters. Sidetracking is common in American politics today, in issues ranging from health care to the federal budget. Does the sidetracking of crucial issues help or hurt voters in the long...
While Chirkov claims that he is "retelling these events with today's voice," the play seems unable to choose between the Biblical tradition and its desire to modernize that tradition. Original quotes from the Bible are used along with modern phrases and slang, creating a sharp and disorienting contrast. When Eve (Naava Piatka) shouts at the dying Adam (Michael Stanton), "We had something real here--this was love!" she seems more like a Danielle Steel heroine than the mother of humanity. Ironically, despite its intention to make the Biblical story more acceptable to the modern viewer, "Genesis of Genesis" implies...
...problem: it couldn't be protected by trademark because hundreds of companies had already used it. In the end, Sun decided that the best thing it could do for Oak was to give it a new name and give it away. So Sun called it Java--a slang term for coffee that dates back to the days when the best brews came from Indonesia, not Seattle--and made it available, free of charge, on the Internet...
...profile published this week, today apologized to the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America for having called Pope John Paul II a "polack" in the article. "It's time to get out the wet noodle and give myself 40 lashes," read a statement. "I should not have used a slang term for Polish. It was poor judgment, and I apologize." Landers, who once topped a World Almanac poll as the most influential woman in the United States, may be issuing more statements soon. In the profile, Geraldo Rivera Rivera comes off as "trashy," President John F. Kennedy as "the womanizer...