As always, Solondz portrays suburban New Jersey as a kind of prison in which never an original or a lively word is spoken.
Anti-Rugosity Cream After the Rolling Stones ended their world tour this summer, Lawrence Van Gelder, an arts critic for The Times, posed this question: "Will the rugose rockers ever roll again?" "Rugose: Not a word you see every day in the arts pages," wrote Jan Freeman in her lively word column in The Boston Globe.
But in my younger days, mud was called clabber or clart – much livelier words – and if you came home wearing the field or with a fondness for new swear words, you'd be called clarty.
In another classroom, teacher Laura Jaeggi had her English Literature class download "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" onto their iPads, which they then used to take notes and quickly look up unfamiliar words during a lively discussion of T.S. Eliot's dramatic monologue.
Now she was a bit too fast, too lively, the words bubbling out of her.
"Such a lively discussion!
Today, however, a sportscaster, news reporter, or comedian may introduce a lively new word already used by an in-group into millions of homes simultaneously, giving it almost instant currency.
Another thing that made this puzzle enjoyable for me was the amount of fresh material, and each one is a very lively, "real word" entry (in some grids with more extensive wordplay, theme entries will register as "new" simply because they are not real words or phrases that would otherwise make sense to put in a puzzle).
The Atlanta-based singer had been a fixture on that city's lively freestyle/spoken-word circuit for nearly five years before going after a national audience.
Elevator Repair Service brings "Gatz," its lively, six-hour, word-for-word enactment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby," to the Public (Sept . 26.
