Word: vernacular
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According to Buell, Watson is interested in religion and literature and in the rise of vernacular culture, which deals with the "re-emergence of English as a medium of expression in the later Medieval world after the Norman conquest," Buell wrote...
...says the climate has changed and it's mostly due in the last 50 years to human activity...the climate will become more variable. More extreme events, more heavy precipitation events, more hot spells, more dry spells, stronger winds. Then we deal with what you could call in the vernacular 'So why should I care? What will be the effects...
...them to the oblivion of stereotype. He respects all the creatures in his landscape, gets inside them, X-rays their souls. Then he takes pictures of them--images of a rapturous rural subtlety that recalls Terrence Malick's Badlands from 1973, two years before Green was born. By blending vernacular poetry, a pristine visual sense and a keen awareness of children's urges and fears, he has upended and ennobled that box-office staple, the troubled-teen film. From the whispers of his precocious worriers comes the shock of the new and a fresh hope for movies...
...unique musical profiles." Indeed, compositions as diverse as Milton Babbitt's dodecaphonic All Set and John Lewis' Three Little Feelings are both considered Third Stream. Reflecting on what has become of the movement, Schuller says, "Now it's become like 10,000th stream, because ethnic and folk and vernacular music is introduced. It's no longer called Third Stream, and I don't care about that. It's finally reached a full flowering...
Here is a film about yearning--the ache for love--and the way wounded people express it. The coup of Green's script is to render complicated feelings in a mix of plangent cliches and vernacular poetry. Listen to Buddy, lovesick over Nasia's desertion, as he bares his soul. "I gave my all to her," he moans. "A plastic ring and a kiss. I mean, it's the thought that counts...