Re: by. They Have a Word for It!

On Saturday, August 4, 2001, at 02:41 PM, Roger Mills wrote:

[A Clockwork Orange]
> My favorites were "horrorshow" 'good' (xoroSó), "creechin(g)" and "ptitsa"
> .
> In my college-days in the 50's "horrowshow" was actually in use, though
> with
> the opposite meaning:  dreadful, god-awful, ugly (clothing, food, people,
> situations etc.-- much over-used).  We also had "blow-lunch", with much
> the
> same mng. (I wonder what that would be in deformed Russian, or whatever?)
>
Hmm--I haven't read the book (but mean to), but I saw the phrase "film at
leven" (film at eleven?) in a couple sf stories depicting decaying urban
societies.  One of them was David Feintuch's _Voices of Hope_.  I think it'
s even the last sentence in the book and I can't for the life of me figure
out what movies? at 11? have to do with anything.  Is this a phrase from a
similarly previous era?  Help...

YHL

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