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...Singer-Songwriter Paul Simon. Then, a few months ago, she took up with Gregg Allman, lead vocalist in the rock band that bears his name. But these have not been casual affairs. "I'm a one-man-at-a-time woman," she says. "To put it in the vernacular, I'm not an easy lay. What counts is the quality of the relationship...
Although her chambers at one time were done in shocking pink, Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Noel Cannon often chose language that was decidedly blue. She once inquired in the vernacular whether guards conducting a search had looked up the rectum of a lawyer whom she had just jailed for contempt. On another occasion off the bench, she threatened to give a traffic policeman "a vasectomy with a .38." To round out her reputation, she sometimes heard cases with her pet Chihuahua in her lap, and for a while had a toy canary that punctuated lawyers' arguments with mechanical...
Arthur Schlesinger,honored historian that he is, has flown even further back on the wings of time, to a dark age when a small group of monks safeguarded the legacy of classical scholarship from the threatening onslaughts of vernacular literature. "In our own time the purity of language is under unrelenting attack from every side," he writes. The rise of mass communications, the growth of large organizations, the invention of advertising, and especially, the growth of democracy all contributed to the "linguistic pollution" characteristic of our times. Watergate's value lies in its forcing the American people to look back...
...storage cabinet. Do you like Yorkshire pudding?" she asks expectantly as she mixes the batter. "The old lady used to make this on holidays. I love to cook, but with all this touring I've really lost my chops," she confesses, meaning manual dexterity in the musical vernacular...
...press reports the only sources of information on the war front. Eyewitness accounts, once shorn of the rather rich vernacular imagery, do point to marked disarray among colonial forces in sharp contrast to FRELIMO's high morale and that movement's inexorable march to political independence...