The common strategy is to back off him, dare him to shoot, but from the opening minutes of Game 3, Rondo had the body language of a counselor playing with the campers on field day, relaxed and free to roam and dissect the Knicks with impunity.
Alongside 'serious' engineering, machine and design metaphors, synthetic biologists also use a language of play and fun.
As in the case of music, Goodman's analyses involve a departure from the ordinary use of language: the dialogue of a play really works as a "score," while stage directions and the like are a "script"—the former is fully notational, syntactically and semantically, the latter does not uniquely determine the performance, nor is it uniquely determined by the performance (1976, 210 11).
Mr. Cucuzza has taken obvious delight in creating the language of the play, a tangy stew of vulgarities and colloquialisms that is often funny but mostly unprintable in a family newspaper.
Christopher Oram's design encloses the opening scenes with swagged red curtains and rows of gilt boxes; in a coup reminiscent of Jonathan Kent's falling-scenery production of the play at the Almeida five years ago, some of this tumbles down so as to provide, in the language of the play, a 'stage of fools'.
The language of that play lit a fuse wire of some sort, and it was then that I knew I wanted to act.
Still, to the extent that India, with its many languages and cultures, persists as a cohesive national entity, the language of Macaulay plays a large role.
A reasonable person would interpret the language of kids playing an online game differently from, say, the ranting of a disturbed person waving a gun outside an elementary school.
But the language of the play is infected with a virus that attacks it, gradually replacing all the words with "blue" and "kettle".
Language, of course, plays a role in this as well.
