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...impoverished a word to describe Paglia's speaking style. She talks at triple speed, rarely even using contractions, hurtling along in a grating pitch that comes perilously close to a cackle. Her aural punctuation is hilarious. A recent SRO lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was typical. Yuh? Yuh? O.K.? O.K.? peppered her speech, and the audience answered right back...
...What in tarnation does that mean?" Brisket demanded. Folks in New Hampshire practice saying "tarnation" and "ay-yuh" every four years for the network news...
...mode. I respect that man." But now the Fool was saying that the Democrats knew they couldn't beat Bush in '92. "Whaddya mean?" Graftwell said, trying to sound encouraging. "The Prez could lose. Four days out of seven, he's an empty suit. Ay-yuh, if it wasn't for Noriega and Saddam Hussein and them two wars, nobody but William Safire would know which one's Bush and which one's Quayle...
Onion, onion, onion is all the word around here. If one has not yet heard of the Vidalia sweet onion, one will. In the past few years, knowledge of its succulence has table-hopped through gourmet circles all over the land. The Vidalia (pronounced Vy-dale-yuh) is status, and with its fame has come its nemesis: imitators. "The imitators are unscrupulous," says Walden. "I fully expect to hear somebody's packaging cabbages out there and calling them Vidalia onions...
...beginning of July, fossilized by dread of winter, may think that he has understood the New Hampshire soul. This is not likely. What the tourist is almost certain to miss is that the New Hampshireman may not be wrestling with the prospect of the winter immediately ahead. "Aye-yuh," the foresighted backwoodsman is thinking, "summah's about petered out, and then we got six-seven months uh wintah, guess we'll make it, just barely, and then after the black flies, we got summah again for a couple uh weeks, and then, damn sure, we got wintah...