new specif. sense: "abuse"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Me neither. But what do I know about cinema?

JL

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Deep down, I know no such thing.
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> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
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> > Everybody who's ever watched Abbott & Costello knows that Lou takes a
> hell
> > of a lot of abuse from Bud - mostly verbal.  It's right there on the
> > screen. The following sentence suggests, however, that a more specific,
> > more
> > sinister sense of "abuse" is becoming fully lexicalized. (There's no
> > contextual stage-setting and the idea is not developed further.):
> >
> > 2008 David Thomson_Have You Seen...?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000
> > Films_ (London: Penguin) 3: Deep down, we know that Bud has abused Lou -
> it
> > is the secret in their films never quite arrived at.
> >
> > It's a review of _Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein_, number one on
> > Thomson's alphabetical hit parade - chosen, as he admits, to get the book
> > off to a "wilder" start than would number two, _Abe Lincoln in Illinois_.
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> > JL
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