Word: verbalizations
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Feydeau was never restrained by the polite inhibition that one cannot kid the tonsils off a person who stutters, and his plays abound in incidental characters whom nature has shortchanged. He was a quintessential absurdist. With dead pan verbal incongruity a character may say, "Just because my life is ruined doesn't mean I can't act like a gentle man. After all, life isn't everything...
...comic scenes delight in visual as well as verbal madness. Heads pop wildly from behind a screen of evergreens during Malvolio's undoing and Sir Andrew Aguecheek mouthes Sir Toby Belch's speech simultaneously from the opposite end of the stage. Even the propmen are carried away, hamming it up as they wander in to change scenes...
...selectively revolutionary consciousness that didn't lead China to express even much verbal support for Chile's Popular Unity government led it to express unlimited support for whatever actions Palestinian guerrillas might take--actions which have ranged in the past from defending refugee camps from Israeli "reprisals" to blowing up schoolbuses with children on board...
...obvious that the Arabs have come of age because they no longer rely on verbal barrage and senseless acts of terrorism to advance their interests...
...vocabulary--through which these personal problems and problems of sexual politics generally can be better understood. As remarkable as is the breakdown which often occurs in mixed groups, what is more remarkable is how little such breakdowns are understood if the group's members don't already have the verbal means to discuss their interactions. When double standards are applied, those culpable deny that their obvious self-contradictions are contradictory, sometimes contending that certain events are not really taking place...