Word: gibberish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Desperate for a companion, Lena calls out to an old bum (Thomas Anderson) that she spots in the distance, the only other character in the performance. She calls him over to the fire, against Boesman's wishes. Even though the old man speaks only gibberish and doesn't understand what Lena is saying, she pretends that they understand one another...
MAYBE life is just an elaborate joke that everyone is in on but you. Maybe when you turn around, everything behind you disappears. Maybe English is just a gibberish language that only you really understand. Maybe reality is just a dream...
...complicate matters, between the segments of DNA that represent genes are endless stretches of code letters that seem to spell out only genetic gibberish. Geneticists once thought most of the unintelligible stuff was "junk DNA" -- useless sequences of code letters that accidentally developed during evolution and were not discarded. That concept has changed. "My feeling is there's a lot of very useful information buried in the sequence," says Nobel laureate Paul Berg of Stanford University. "Some of it we will know how to interpret; some we know is going to be gibberish...
...surroundings during a vacation in New Hampshire: "The pastures are stony, the mountains are leonine, the natives are taciturn and venal, the sunsets are red, and in the early evenings you can hear, from the shores of the lake, the brave and innocent voices of little children, singing some gibberish song about what a wonderful time they're having at Camp Wonk-a-tonk...
Woman begins with a semiconscious housewife (Stockard Channing) hearing her doctor (Simon Jones) speaking in apparent gibberish; it ends with her speaking it herself, turning the muddled phrase "December bee" into a last futile grasp toward sanity. Along the way, she alternates between kittenish manipulation and alienating acerbity, between sly concealment of her growing disorientation and frank revelry in it. She appears to have two families: the real ones are a dried-up vicar husband, a sanctimonious sister-in-law and an estranged adult son. The imaginary figures, who burst in accompanied by golden light and birdsong, are beautiful, adoring...