Where this leaves jazz and where jazz goes in the future indeed, whether jazz can endure as a distinct musical idiom or language were unanswerable questions at the end of the 20th century.
As in his other novels, Faulkner employs elements of oral storytelling, allowing different characters to lend voice to the narrative in their own distinct Southern idiom.
Almost invariably he has more than one group of dancers in action: from the opening scene, you can't forget the small groups, each distinct in movement idiom from the last, which keep passing from right to left, while, from the closing scene, the contrasting groups of five play against one another compellingly, like the feeling of a Socratic dialectic.
Winter was the first to write of Juba as a man who introduced elements of African dance to the Western lexicon and thus fostered the creation of a distinct American dance idiom.
Each comic persona has a distinct world view, a unique idiom, and a richly imagined backstory.
This consists of two long pieces, "Resin" (2011) and "Scheherazade" (2009), both choreographed by Alonzo King, quite distinct from each other in structure, idiom, music and visual design, and each allowing the dancers to emerge as separate beings.
Junot Díaz writes in an idiom so electrifying and distinct it's practically an act of aggression, at once alarming and enthralling, even erotic in its assertion of sudden intimacy: "Dude was figureando hard.
Amanda Bynes definitely didn't create the phrase "LOL," but she may have the distinct honor of coining a charming little idiom.
In the meantime let's hope Ms. Goldberg is at work on another play, one that pays more attention to the articulated idioms of thought and expression that make characters distinct, and one that has a different kind of role for Mr. Messina.
I borrowed the idiom, and in some places these ideas overlap, but for the most part they are distinct (and it is upon the distinctions that I am focused).
