Word: slanging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rational response is wasted here. And yet continued silence is impossible. All the facts may not be in on black inferiority, but there is a ghetto slang game that might assist the Herrnsteins, Jensens, and Newmans uncover the missing data. Simply stated gentlemen, why don't you ask your mothers? Derrick A. Bell Professor...
...that the photographer's interest may not have been entirely journalistic when she introduced into the evidence a Christmas card from Galella. It depicted a short Santa apparently giving him money, with the legend: "The Payoff, starring Aristotle Onassis as Santa and Ron Galella as the Paparazzo" (Italian slang for freelance photographer...
...fifteen-year-old leader of a street gang, one of many which terrorize unwary citizens in poorly-policed night hours. He is a sadistic punk, only a little better than the authority figures he confronts, and no better than the elders he kills and rapes. If his NADSAT slang, composed of Russian, rock and road talk, is an attractive reaction against official jargon, the scientific tomes of a donnish type and the antique knick-knacks collected by a starry old lady are more touching attempts to preserve personal cultural interests. Aside from the attractions of the language, Burgess uses Alex...
...wipe out' is slang for 'kill...
Gonna hit you!" Some of the catch phrases in these routines have already become part of the slang of the '70s. The best known is the refrain with which a black minister's wife explains her every goof, whether it is buying an expensive dress or ramming her car into the side of the church: "The devil made...