Word: lingo
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...arguing that his $27 billion national health-care plan is the essence of frugality; otherwise health costs will be even higher. Teddy's heart may not be in the same place as the heart of Howard Jarvis, but Kennedy and his friends are getting good at the new lingo...
...crew lingo, "odd" means...
After shooting an impeccable 36 for his front nine, the wheels came off George Arnold's game as they say in golf lingo Arnold piled up 48 strokes on his second nine...
...with the total disdain of the nobleman for the artist, said, 'Just your name, Mr. Proust. No thoughts.' ") The U.S. he sees as still an open society, free and easy, rambunctious, optimistic, cheerfully ready to build on both its successes and its mistakes. He likes American lingo and quotes a lot of it (Harry Truman on Jack Kennedy: "He had his ear so close to the ground it was full of grasshoppers"). He likes interstate highways, supermarkets, fast-food shops, fast talkers, the entire "discardo" culture. He likes the chanciness of the San Andreas fault, on which...
Written for the screen by Albert Innaurato (Gemini), one of the most gifted young U.S. playwrights, Verna is both a comic and a sorrowful account of a girl's peculiar heroism. The humor can be found in Innaurato's sassy dialogue, which gives new resonance to the lingo of '40s movies, and in the many vintage U.S.O. routines that dot the film's narrative. Underneath the surface wit is Innaurato's portrait of Verna's aching loneliness and cultural malaise. When Verna, for the sake of her nonexistent career, jilts an Army captain whom...