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...drink moonshine, or that there are 176 names for dust balls under the bed, they are also bound to be awed by the dictionary's staggering scholarship. Virtually every entry is meticulously catalogued for its geographic roots, first recorded usage, evolution of meaning and the most subtle shading of sound. Pronunciation Editor James Hartman particularly prizes manniporchia, a northern Maryland word for the DTs. The dictionary's investigators traced it to the Latin mania a potu, meaning craziness from drink, with the r tossed in from the habitual inflection of the region. "The detective work involved is exciting--to weird...
...background sound, Nielson read the script and Rosen chose some stock tracks of flourishing trumpets...
...this profoundity leads to a little bit of overacting on everyone's part. Fonda expressing her love for Agnes and her wish to help has all the old cornyness of the Three Faces of Eve psychodrama. But the actresses are all of high caliber, so the sound and fury is controlled and realistic...
...that I want to make a splash or anything. It's just that in the past few years I've taken a real beating from various Head of the Charles parties, river festivals, sunbathers, joggers and vandals. The problem is that the MDC just can't seem to coordinate sound public policy with limited state funding to keep me in tip-top shape...
...acceptance remarks for the National Medal for Literature (197 White noted, "I fell in love with the sound of an early typewriter and have been stuck with it ever since. I believed then, as I do now, in the goodness of the published word...