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Three recent films take a different approach. For the dead-end kids at the center of each film, morality is a gray area; only their lives are black and blue. Hector Babenco's Pixote (Portuguese slang for peewee) is an eleven-year-old São Paulo waif living his long days in a kind of Dotheboys Hall for juvenile offenders. In another school, pleasing the older boys might mean carrying the water bucket; here it involves stashing dope, spearheading escapes and, above all, keeping his big dark eyes open and his mouth shut. The film is canny enough...
...class fear that Botha's reform measures will prepare the way for black majority rule. Declares H.N.P. Leader Jaap Marais: "Botha is stimulating racial frictions by creating expectations. It implants the idea that the existing order is not legitimate." He adds, "We have a kaffirboetie government," using Afrikaans slang for "nigger lover." Says Gert Combrick, a white mine worker: "Today they are ventilation officers and electricians. In a few years I'll have a black manager, and I won't work...
...letters reveal how much time Hemingway was left alone with his writing. It was the one thing that he could not charm, intimidate, tame with fists, gun or gaff. Early comments on the subject jumble jazz-age slang with such gee whizzisms as "Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers" and "Pound thinks I'm a swell poet." The mature craftsman finds that he has to write to be happy, that his art is his disease, his vice and obsession...
...Dictionary of Unconventional Russian: Argot, Jargon and Slang. Formerly a writer, translator and dissident in the Soviet Union, Kirill V. Uspensky first heard many of the words in his files while serving in a Russian labor camp. He has now collected nearly 20,000 words, many of which have hidden political meanings. W.L.W...
...cartoon-strip gestures flourish at Lowell House this weekend in Gaetano Donizetti's The Elixir of Love, a production which remains unabashed and comfortable in its use of devices that have pleased audiences for centuries--and balances them well enough to sustain its momentary lapses into camp and slang...