Word: slanging
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...played it. If you really put your heart into something and work hard at it, you generally end up liking it." On her own as First Lady, a frothier, breezier Pat Nixon began to emerge, one not above teasing her staff or kidding the press corps, using such slang words out of her college past as "kiddo" and "big deal." She especially enjoyed traveling. "I think this is the real me," she said after one trip to Oklahoma. "I'm a frontier woman at heart...
Like all his work, California Split (slang for high-low-split poker) has its own bent rhythm. It gives the feeling of having been made with a stoned offhandedness. In fact, there is a relaxed precision governing everything, even Elliott Gould's mumbled throwaways...
...sugar" because of its color and texture, this Asian heroin has a purity of only 50%, compared with the 96%-98% of the old Marseille product. Once processed, this crudely refined "sugar" is smuggled into Amsterdam in small amounts (usually no more than 2 lbs.) by Chinese "mules" (underworld slang for narcotics couriers). Often they are illegal residents of Amsterdam, who have been blackmailed into carrying drugs after they have run up heavy debts playing mah-jongg in the "Chinese Only" gambling dens of the city's Rosse Buurt (red-light district). Once the heroin arrives...
...tale illustrates the astonishing behind-the-scenes influence wielded by Ryoichi Sasakawa, 75, the most powerful remaining member of a vanishing breed of Japanese kingmakers known as kuromaku. The word translates literally as black curtain,* but the closest equivalent in American slang of the power it connotes is godfather. Through his enormous fortune (his real estate holdings alone are estimated at $71.4 million) and the huge store of giri (moral obligations) he has accumulated over the years by dispensing favors and finances, Sasakawa has a puissance that any American influence peddler would envy...
Bruce's routines tapped the ghetto idiom and jazz slang of the fifties black jazz musicians with whom he gigged, scored junk and shot up. He mined the radio shows and grade B movies of the thirties and forties to forge his early mordant satires. Finally, Bruce found his most comprehensive metaphor for human experience in the hustling world of show business itself. As Goldman reconstructs and distills the creative process, Bruce's greatest work would invariably pose the question...