Word: slangs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more serious than misfired jokes is the Review's repeated charge that Dartmouth's black students expect, and get, preferential academic treatment. Last year Co-Founder Keeney Jones wrote an article assailing affirmative action in what purported to be black street slang. In its annual critique of the curriculum in September, the Review disdained giving either women's studies or black studies the detailed analysis accorded to more traditional academic departments. Asked the Review rhetorically: "If Jews or Serbo-Croatians claimed victim status, and bit people, would they get their own departments...
Your Eyes Only, made in 1981 for a "mere" $26 million (Moonraker cost $32 million), has yet to break even. Octopussy has a budget of $25 million to $30 million. When asked how expensive Never Say Never Again will be, Producer Schwartzman offers Hollywood slang: "We're on Route 20 and heading north." (Translation: up to $25 million.) Both films will be fighting for the moviegoer's attention against The Revenge of the Jedi (Part III of the Star Wars saga) and a swarm of aggressive kidflix. Will there be enough prurient adults around to push both Bond...
Harvard which beat every team but Brown both this weekend and two weeks ago advanced to the final slang with MIT and UMass. Beating every team but Brown is fast becoming the Crimson pattern in regional competition. The Crimson has a tight hold on the number-two ranking in New England easily lending off other rivals, but always in the last several years has lost to the Burns...
...Gablers have many supporters and admirers. Says Paul Mathews, a member of the state board of education: "I feel the Gablers are doing a great service. They're ferreting out slang, vulgarities and also things that are unpatriotic." Yet many classroom teachers object to the Gablers' narrow viewpoints, and the Texas State Teachers Association helped PFAW by sending them the Gablers' criticisms in advance. Says Austin English Teacher Ouida Whiteside: "We all sat back for a long time and thought the whole thing was a joke. Suddenly we realized we'd been had." However, Grace Grimes...
...losing part of the impact of this almost entirely visual film in order to read dialogue like "Contact bearing 22.37 degree--sinking fast!" "Full speed ahead at 30' 2" !" and "Aye, aye, captain!" Watching the movie is like reading a super-action-heroes comic book. Moreover, sailor's slang, no matter how well translated, is meant to be heard and not read: "Screw till it falls off, you swine!" For once it seems a film might be better dubbed than subtitled, expect that the sound of the German language is an essential part of the effect of this film...