Word: speech
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ones. At one point Bobby, as fed up with Rob's hackneyed moralizing and witless witticisms as we are, goes on a rampage in which he brings the play's quick pace to a grinding halt--at least it reads this way in the text. Yet Rainey delivers the speech with the same monochromatic, sugar-high intensity that characterizes most of Bobby's delivery. The result is an indeterminate dramatic haze that kills moments of potential power...
...many "silence" their distinctive voice. They become less confident and more tentative in offering their opinions -- a trait that often persists into adulthood. "We start to hear the breathy voice," says Gilligan. "After a while, they speak in a way that's disconnected from how they are really feeling." Speech becomes punctuated with passive "I don't knows." Consider Anna. At age 12, the insidious words cropped up only 21 times during an interview. By age 14, they numbered...
BOSTON--When incumbent Democratic Representative Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. announced his landslide victory over Republican challenger Glenn W. Fiscus last night, he didn't read the typical canned acceptance speech...
...conventional acceptance speech that preceded the impromptu concert, Kennedy thanked his staff and volunteers and touted "a margin of victory that was second to none in the state." With 40 percent of the votes counted, Kennedy was leading Fiscus, a self-employed engineer, by 75 percent to 25 percent...
Previous Silber Shockers include his assertion that so many Cambodian immigrants live in Lowell because Massachusetts' welfare policies are too generous and his claim that giving a speech on drug abuse in Roxbury would be equivalent to talking to a bunch of drug addicts. If these comments reflect "straight shooting" Silber's true feelings--as his backers claim--then his true feelings do not belong on Beacon Hill...