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...Bronson's book? At the heart of the new machine is a revolutionary computer language called the "hypnotizer," the brainchild of an archetypal "pear-shaped" geek named Tiny Curtis Reese. He bears an uncanny resemblance to James Gosling, the pear-shaped Sun Microsystems programmer who created Java, the computer lingua franca of the Internet...
...January/February issue of Lingua Franca, a magazine that reviews academic life, Susannah Hunnewell notes at the end of a report on the Figaro case, "Whatever Loupin's [sic] errors, he may have been on to one thing: Harvard's French department is in some disarray...
Soccer, the lingua franca of sports everywhere else in the world, was finally - on tongues in the U.S. as the cup made its Stateside debut. And even if only a few in this country were fluent enough to know a penalty shot from a shootout, Americans filled up stadiums to watch. Now, even soccer-illiterate Yankees know how to say it: Gooooooaaaal...
Kevin Smith's Clerks., a rakish comedy set in a New Jersey convenience store, was proscribed for "language" -- a wittier, more stylized version of the wry obscenities that are the lingua franca of today's teenagers. "I don't want to become a poster boy for vulgarity," says Smith, 24, "but in this film it works. There's nothing in Clerks. that is more vulgar than the language Jennifer Jason Leigh uses as a phone-sex operator in Robert Altman's ( Short Cuts, and that movie got an R. In fact, that was done in a sexually titillating...
...Mexican thinker Jose Vasconcelos in the '20s -- a glorious blend of mongrels and mestizos. It may be more relevant to suppose that more and more of the world may come to resemble Hong Kong, a stateless special economic zone full of expats and exiles linked by the lingua franca of English and the global marketplace. Some urbanists already see the world as a grid of 30 or so highly advanced city- regions, or technopoles, all plugged into the same international circuit...