zombic

Mullins, Bill Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Wed Jul 6 14:27:15 UTC 2005


zomboid
 
	
zomboid 
Decadence Meets Death On an 1800's Plantation; [Review]	
Dave Kehr <javascript:void(0);> . New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.: Oct 24, 2001. pg. E.1	
	
	
 
"His film consists of strongly framed long shots in which the characters speak largely in mumbling monotones while remaining motionless, a style that recalls at once the deliberately zomboid acting of Edgar G. Ulmer's grade-Z classics of the 1940's (''Detour,'' ''Strange Illusion'') and the Brechtian alienation techniques of experimental European filmmakers like Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet."

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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Jonathan Lighter
Sent: Wed 7/6/2005 9:07 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: zombic

Am amazed that this useful and evocative adjective has not been reported before :

1975 William Dufty _Sugar Blues_ (Rpt. N.Y.: Warner Books, 1993) 222  Sterile eggs--the kind laid by zombic chickens trapped in assembly line prison hatcheries.

2001 Daniel Dennett,  in Anthony O'Hear, ed., _Philosophy at the New Millennium_ (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1991) 27 The Zombic Hunch : Extinction of an Intuition ?

2005 _New Yorker_ (July 4) 44 She explained to me, instantly, that it was normal for children to develop intense attachments to pets, even "zombic" ones that did not reciprocate affection.

JL



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