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...Slasher (IFC, June 19, 10 p.m. E.T.), director John Landis (The Blues Brothers) spends a week with Bennett as he organizes and executes one such blowout. En route to the airport, Bennett struggles to remember where he's going--Memphis, Tenn.--while an assistant preps him on the local vernacular. ("Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.") Once on the scene, though, the Slasher--a wiry, nervous guy, like Billy Bob Thornton with Tom Waits' rasp--thrums like a racing engine. "This is a show to me," he says, "not a sale." He struts around the lot wielding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Depth of a Salesman | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...Cosby is right that education is important and kids should master English - but they should also be taught that vernacular black culture has worth. Certainly Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote such vernacular classics as Their Eyes Were Watching God - understood that. "Zora chose to write in dialect because she thought the language of ordinary, rural, self-educated black folk was beautiful," Valerie Boyd, author of the Hurston biography Wrapped in Rainbows told me. "She thought this language - the language of her youth, her primary language as a storyteller - was poetic and rich and full of vivid imagery and worthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Bill Cosby Should Be Talking About | 6/3/2004 | See Source »

...under the spot here and maybe I’m not quick—as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.” And though it’s difficult for Dartboard to decipher Bush’s peculiar vernacular, she thinks she gets the gist...

Author: By Morgan Grice, MORGAN GRICE | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

...second never got off the ground. David Hookes, who died on Jan. 19, was not a cricket legend on traditional measures. After all, Hookes played 23 Tests, scored 1,306 runs at an average of 34, and hit a solitary century. But he became a legend in the vernacular Australian sense. Entertaining on the sporting field and fearless as a commentator, Hookes left his mark on the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forever Young | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...Democrats have got to take out the president,” Clark said, speaking in his preferred military vernacular...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kerry Leads, Three Vie for Second in New Hampshire | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

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