Word: vernacular
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...environmentally reckless as it is visually dull. With farmland and forests disappearing and water running out, Yu says, cities can't afford be so wasteful: "China needs a dramatic shift. We've misunderstood what it means to be developed. We need to develop a new system, a new vernacular, to express the changing relationship between land and people." When Yu, now 42, returned home in 1997 with a doctorate in design from Harvard and a teaching appointment at Peking University's Architecture Center, landscape design wasn't even an officially recognized profession. The country had a long tradition of private...
...years. "There has been a revolutionary improvement in Italian food," says Tim Zagat, a co-founder of the restaurant guides that bear his name. Zagat doesn't credit Batali entirely for that improvement--in fact a much earlier pioneer was Lidia Bastianich, who was cooking in the authentic Italian vernacular at her New York City restaurants when Batali was rinsing beer glasses in college. But Zagat says Batali's visibility on the Food Network brought Italian culinary simplicity to a much wider audience...
...more realistic fantasy: 40 gets a haircut, Keak performs at a fast food joint, and video vixens are conspicuously absent, although everyone involved does seem to wear a giant chain.As a bonus, it all ends with a visual glossary of Bay Area slang, which is nice because the vernacular is otherwise incomprehensible (“ghost ride the whip”, anyone?). If there’s any justice, by March it will be common knowledge.—Eric L. FritzCat Power“Living Proof”Film symbolism comes in two forms: the indelible images...
...president was hoping to leave “Innate-gate” behind him for good, he’s had no such luck. The Global Language Monitor, a group that tracks vernacular trends, last month enshrined “intrinsic aptitude” as number two on a list of the 10 “most egregious examples of politically correct language?...
...Howard calls the measures "major but not extreme." It's classic Howard reform. From little things big things grow, as the vernacular poet sang. If he can swing the legislation without significant alterations, Howard will have started a cultural and economic dynamic that will change Australia forever. Over the coming years, workers' capacity to strike will be limited, the income gap between workers with highly prized skills and those without will expand, the role of unions (already losing their relevance) will decline, and Australians' ideas about the relationship between bosses and workers and about a fair-wage safety net will...