Word: lingo
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...play's lyricism and innocence, it is at the same time one of the dirtiest in its diction. It teems with smutty puns that would get the work banned by highschool teachers and boards of education if these folks were really up on their Elizabethan lingo. The bulk of the bawdry issues from the mouths of Mercutio and the Nurse, who are the foils to Romeo and Friar Laurence. Kahn has a lot of the phallic and other ribaldry indicated through gesture or mime...
...York City police lieutenant. Savalas-three-piece suits, thick stogie, shaved head and all-makes the most of it, giving the kind of magnetic, idiosyncratic performance that can carry a show. He is aided by scripts and direction that reveal a sharp feeling for the city's tough lingo, roach-infested tenements and lurid neon street scenes. Last week Kojak solved the murder of a topless go-go dancer. The key clue that allowed him to trace the dead girl: the scars from silicone treatments on her breasts...
...Scapegrace's editor), this yarn is a thorough, almost scholarly pastiche of Victorian lingo and manners. It fairly reeks of historical authenticity-and of blood-for Flashman, in his early 30s, is still his old bully self, a lucky coward and a genial sadist...
...based on the desire to recapture a time gone by, the germinal days of rock and roll when it was the song and not the singer that made the hit. Representing the fifties, they lay the camp trimmings on thick: the grease, the T-shirts, the rumbles, the lingo. Last year when Sha-na-na came to Boston, most of the crowd was dressed for occasion, resplendent in white sox, sweat shirts, saddle shoes, and Brylcreem. This year the leftovers of that crowd walked like ghosts among a younger crowd in halter tops, platform shoes, and wide bell-bottoms. Nostalgia...
...articulate spokesman for jazz, Taylor is annoyed by the fact that jazz musicians tend to be perversely uncommunicative about their music-witness Parker's off-putting bop lingo, or Louis Armstrong's famous line: "If you got to ask what jazz is, you ain't got it." Says Taylor: "Every chance I get I try to set the record straight. I say, 'Look, I'm not apologizing for this music. I think it's something to be very proud of and I want to tell you about it.' " Beginning next week at Manhattan...