With "Into the Fire," language becomes an instrument and a noise in itself, moving in and out of focus, reacting combustibly with itself, like the noise of a boombox symphony.
The crude tools progressed to fire, language, the wheel, weapons, art, agriculture, metals, towns, villages, cities, nations, fossil fuels, the splitting of the atom.
His characters, whether a world-renowned professor of nothing in particular or an incompetent waiter in a snooty restaurant, frequently spoke rapid fire languages of dubious origin.
Thus, form and prose burst into poetic and dramatic shape and, at the extreme, act through pure accumulation or conjunction of rapid-fire language, often having the effect of concrete poetry.
The bill, sponsored by Representative Christopher H. Smith, Republican of New Jersey, has drawn fire over language that undercuts a longstanding exemption on the ban on using federal money for abortions in the case of rape or incest; the measure narrows the definition of rape to "forcible rape," a term that his office has never defined.
New York City inspectors, from the Fire Department and the Department of Environmental Protection, did visit Kaltech, the report said, but the lack of up-to-date fire code language on chemical handling did not focus those inspections on some of the things that later contributed to the blast.
Several characteristics separate humans from other primates: bipedality, hairlessness, a family as a social unit, a large neocortex, small canine teeth, uses of tools, fire, and language, culture and civilization, and so forth.
Speaking from the field, and using a microphone, appearing similar to a member of the commentary team, the representative used rapid fire betting language to describe the betting odds, and exotic bet options such as who would score the next try.
Mr. Mamet's angry, rapid-fire, profane language (which he perfected in his Pulitzer Prize winner, "Glengarry Glen Ross") rolls off Mr. Letts's tongue like 19th-century poetry.
People like Gorton are increasingly replacing the traders in traditional stock exchange pits -- those nervous-looking people in vests, furiously hand signaling buy and sell orders in a sort of rapid-fire sign language.
In a rapid-fire, Dari-language rap — a rare genre on the program — Taki told of personal and political turmoil over the last year, including the cancer that claimed his leg.
