IJ227.2
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A.B.D.
"All But Dissertation," a term used to refer to people who have completed their doctoral studies with the exception of their dissertations.
Homburg
a type of hat (see right)
Wiesbaden
a city of Germany above 25 miles west of Frankfurt (Main)
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the A.M.'s interruptus
Presumably this means the end of the morning, although the only common English usage of "interruptus" is in the Latin phrase coitus interrruptus, i.e., "pulling out."
Maya Deren
Born Eleanora Derenkowsky, Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Ukrainian-born American filmmmaker.
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glycine
one of the 20 amino acids found in proteins
Rutherford Keck and Crosby Baum
These both seem to be invented people....
Smothergill
...as does this...
Miriam Prickett
...and this.
Franciscan bald spot
The Orders of Friars Minor were known to shave the tops of their heads in medieval and early modern times.
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paps
breasts or nipples
diphthong
In linguistics, a diphthong is a vowel combination involving a smooth transition from one vowel to another. English has three diphthongs: /ay/ as in "papaya," /oy/ as in "boy," and /au/ as in "Bauhaus." Technically "beautiful" doesn't have a diphthong.
febrile
feverish
scopophiliac
sexually attracted to pornography
Boaz
the name of cities in both Alabama and West Virginia
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Vogelsong
German: bird song
Emerson College
a college in Boston
ectoplasm
the supposed emanation of the soul from the body; here used as a metaphor for vomit
afflatus
gas
dithers
trembles or vibrates
jaundice
yellowing of the skin caused by liver disease
b & w
black and white
Bouvier
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's unmarried name
f-stop
This is "the ratio of the focal length (f)) of a lens or lens system to the effective diameter of its aperture" (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition).
Berliner
Technically, it's called the Berliner Pfannkuchen (doughnut).
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Ich bein ein Berliner
Bein is the wrong word. It's a noun in German and means "bone." The first-person singular of sein ("to be") is bin.
TA
Teaching Assistant
À du nous avons foi au poison
French (roughly): We have faith in poison
Eve Plumb
She played Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch.
Henderson
Florence Henderson, who played Carol Brady
Davis
Ann B. Davis, who played Alice, the maid
Peter
the middle son, played by Christopher Knight
Greg
the eldest son, played by Barry Williams
De gustibus non est disputandum
Latin: There's no accounting for taste
Eisenstein and Kurosawa and Michaux
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948) was a Latvian-born Russian-Jewish filmmaker, famous for his film Battleship Potemkin. Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was perhaps the most prominent Japanese filmmaker of the twentieth century. Oscar Micheaux (1893-1951) was an African-American filmmaker whose ouevre can be viewed here.
draw a bead
slang for taking aim at a target with a rifle
ten m.
Ten meters is equal to 32.8 feet.
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Heideggerian
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a prominent twentieth-century German philosopher and proponent of existentialism.
a priori
From the Latin for "from what comes first," these are assumptions made before observations are made.
wraith
another word for "ghost"
labile
unstable
The Incision
I could locate no film by this name.
qua
From the Latin ablative case of the word for "who," this word means "in the character of capacity of."
dopamine
a neurotransmitter, primarily responsible for movement and cognition
blinis
Russian crepes
tartines
a type of French open-faced sandwich
sweetbreads
thymus gland or pancreas of young animals (calf or lamb)
glacé
French for "iced"
Morris Mini
another name for the Morris Minor
ipecac
derived from the ipecacuanha plant, a syrup produced to induce vomiting
clapper
the tongue of a bell
Dishmaster
see Subsidized Time
Makavajev
Born in 1932, Dusan Makavejev (probably misspelled) is a Yugoslavian-born film director.
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Shiny Prize, Kentucky
not a real town
1.7 meters tall
a little over 5'6"
48 kilograms
about 106 pounds
EZ-Widers
a brand of cigarette rolling papers
Cyrillic
employing the Cyrillic alphabet, as with Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, etc.
mollified
softened in feeling and temper
soft rock's grim dental association
which is to say, it's the kind of music you'd hear in a dentist's office
Kinski as Paganini
Klaus Kinski (1926-1991), Danzig-born German-American actor, played Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), the Italian violinist and composer, in his final film, Kinski Paganini.
Léaud as Doinel
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born 1944), a French actor, played the fictional character Antoine Doinel in five films.
Peterson's The Lead Shoes
a 1949 film by Sidney Peterson
pomander
This is "a mixture of aromatic substances, often in the form of a ball, formerly carried on the person as a supposed guard against infection but now placed in closets, dressers, etc." (Random House Unabridged Dictionary).
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dicky
impaired
bathetic
appealing to bathos, i.e., insincere pathos (emotion)
neat bourbon
bourbon without ice
Vittoria
a reference to Santa Maria della Vittoria, where the mentioned work by Bernini hangs
recumbent
reclining
Gleem
a brand of toothpaste
NoCoat
NoCoat is a brand of drywall materials.
NeGram
a brand name of nalidixic acid, used to treat urinary tract infections
depilatory
for removal of hair
Monostat
brand name of a treatment for vaginal yeast infections
Parapectolin
a mixture of kaolinite and pectin, used to treat diarrhea
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Kodachrome
a brand name of camera film
Reynolds Wrap
a brand name of aluminum foil
baking soda
Joelle isn't making freebase cocaine; she's making crack.
C knob
the knob for cold water
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Paducah
a city in Kentucky about 175 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.
Qantas
an airline serving Australia and New Zealand
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fillips
a sharp tap
mâché
i.e., papier mâché
S.O.P.
Standard Operating Procedure
imperial
a case for luggage
"...darkness dance on the face of the deep..."
a play on Genesis 1:2
"...that skull fragment out of the Hamlet graveyard scene..."
i.e., "infinite jest"
Mad Stork
the nickname for former NFL linebacker Ted Hendricks
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banal
hackneyed or trite
Prettiest G.O.A.T.
Thought G.O.A.T. stands here for "Girl Of All Time," it's a pun (and an oxymoron) since "goat" is a slang term for an ugly person.
slew-footed
with the foot turned on the axis of the ankle
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white- party-noise
which is to say random noise generated by the party outside the bedroom
'We've Only Just Begun'
a song by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols first recorded by the Carpenters in 1970
mercuric red
red as the color made by MercuroChrome
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