Franklin's music is rife with recognizable influences, from traditional Southern gospel to R. & B., hip-hop to arena rock, and he accentuates this fact by offering audiences a flurry of accompanying bodily references.
Concluding the evening is Mr. Rapp's raw and unfinished "Tone Unknown," which includes some of his usual touches (bodily fluids, literary references) as well as a plot about a shamelessly phony television anchor, Victoria Houselight Ms. Hendersonn), shooting a program that eventually spins way out of control.
As Lakoff and Johnson suggest in their important book Metaphors We Live By, our earliest ways of conceiving of the world are through structural metaphors which reference our bodily orientation in space such as up/down and back/front.
This was only observed for MI tasks that involved a strong reference to bodily information (i.e., first-person visual MI) [ 27].
(After two or three, one begins to wonder if Mr. Reddin also writes pharmaceutical advertisements for late-night television.) A lot of "The Perpetual Patient" relies on tired and familiar sight gags, vaudeville routines, sophomoric references to bodily functions and old-fashioned mugging to get an odd chuckle.
Embarrassed by references to bodily functions?
Try to keep your jokes free of references to bodily functions, sex acts, or disparaging other groups of people.
Johann Hari, writing in Slate, found ample occasion to reference Bernstein's bodily fluids: Only a hundred or so pages in, the scent of testosterone and spent semen soaked into its pages becomes bewildering.... It's not just the tone, though Bernstein's oblique confession to having his first sexual experiences in an Asian brothel is creepy.
The importance of PFI was supported by our finding that the good and satisfactory PFI groups had a higher HRQoL score in all of the dimensions except for bodily pain, compared to the reference values of the age- and gender-weighted Finnish population.
On June 4, 2003, The New York Post gleefully introduced readers to "Fishing From the Pavement," a book of poetry that Mr. Libeskind had published in 1997, which included "10-dollar words and deliberately obscure references to radishes, bodily functions and genitalia".
