The Opera Theater of St . Louiss four-opera, all-English-language season is offering "Lucia di Lammermoor" whose principals, Jennifer Welch-Babidge and Shawn Mathey, have been well received, and also a "Magic Flute" that has had its casting problems.
They're an alternative canon to the English-language "awards season" movies that emerge after Venice and Toronto in the autumn.
The one sex scene is couched in perfectly ordinary language: "He seasoned my mouth, sweetened my neck, coddled my nipple, nuzzled my belly," and so on, southward, to the phallus and groin.
"We've introduced a new visual language with consistency season to season, using the same model and photographer to develop a signature for Jimmy Choo," Mr. Schulman said.
The language of this season is unpacked no differently.
Feng Xiaogang, the prolific Chinese director whose "Back to 1942" is China's submission for the foreign language Oscar this season, left his handprints at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Friday.
In the midst of an election season, the language represents a political challenge of sorts to the administration's critics.
The two are locked in a tight battle in South Carolina, the site of the next big Republican primary, and a new McCain advertisement there used the harshest language so far this season.
Sarafa's aesthetic might be all his own, but his language comes straight from season four of the popular American reality show, Project Runway, when Siriano – then 21 – claimed top prize, along the way dropping "fierce" and "hot mess" and "hot tranny mess" with absurd frequency.
From character to character, their accents vary from heavily Germanic to British; the language spoken is English seasoned with German exclamations.
Loria's tough stand on rights fees left the Expos without a contract for local television or English-language radio broadcasts last season.
