Word: vernacular
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Bush gives us the best opportunity we've had to do that. But if the 2000 trend continues and we're still getting 8% of the black vote and under 35% of the Hispanic vote, excuse my vernacular, but that ain't good for the party. We just can't sit back and say, "Let everybody fend for themselves...
...Crosby, Sinatra, Torm?, Bennett - takes from Astaire," writes Steve Schwartz on Classical Net. "The male pop singer B.F. (before Fred) sounded something like an Irish tenor. ... The limitations of Astaire's voice forced him to find another way - deceptively casual, never oversold, and at home with the American vernacular. Astaire moved the 'scene' of the singer from the center of the great hall to just across the table, in effect replacing the Minstrel Boy with Ordinary Guy, U.S. version." Whereas Louis Armstrong abstracted a song's lyrics into a plangent growl, Astaire mined their meaning with mediocre vocal equipment...
...sell California its own electricity for a higher price by pretending it came from out of state. He also learned the Daisy Chain Swap, or how to form a temporary cartel with other traders to inflate prices. "It's clear these companies were signaling among themselves using a vernacular," he says...
...HOLLIS system has more than 600,000 CJK records,” said Harvard-Yenching Librarian James K.M. Cheng. “It will be a tremendous help to faculty, students and scholars...to be able to search the new HOLLIS database with CJK vernacular characters...
...through pre-existing images--amateur and police photos, news clippings and the like--that have no glamour, that intend to sell nothing (unlike American Pop Art) and that are, in effect, the very scurf and dandruff of common life. At the same time they are very German, being pure vernacular. Like most photo-derived art, Richter's reproduces poorly. He has not shown much in the U.S. He is not about lapel-grabbing fictions of urgency; in fact his work, when first seen, looks quite eerily cold. He is not doing pastiche reruns of early 20th century German Expressionism...