But as protest over enduring racist language and symbolism mounts, with the New York Post's film critic writing that the movie adaptation should be banned from cinemas, Place's performance is gaining traction.
In the end, Ms. Acerra says, after five years of "enduring threats, foul language, ridicule and unfounded criticism," she received help from her union.
There's an odd comfort to this notion; it testifies to the enduring power of language, a faith in the potency of mere syllables to shock and outrage.
According to this well-researched biography, this Italian writer and Auschwitz survivor had a lifelong faith in the clarity of thinking and an enduring reverence for language.
A hymn to friendship and the enduring power of language, it is also a requiem for a nation's unfinished literature.
It includes an interview in which Mr. Bochner discusses his return to painting and his enduring interest in language as an artistic material.
If you keep your ears peeled, you'll be rewarded by passages that confirm Mr. Mamet's enduring fascination with language as a shield and weapon.
Things like law, media and language, enduring organisational structures that most of us, whether gay, bi or straight, have absorbed into our collective consciousness and regurgitate whether we want to or not.
The challenges associated not only with breastfeeding but also formula feeding led many women to use language of "enduring" (jianchi) and "hardship" (xinku) to describe both breastfeeding and motherhood.
During the cold war the Directorate of Operations was, in effect, America's Department of the Third World -- a cadre who spent careers in the backwaters of a troubled developing world, spoke the languages and built enduring relationships with men who ran the countries, as well as those who would, from time to time, overthrow them.
