Word: verbalizations
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...ring funny when played as high tragedy. "Do you bleed? Do you cry?" moans trampled Talent Scout Eleanor Parker. "I'm not some sort of garbage pail you can slide a lid on and walk away!" she adds. The less raunchy lines are disposed of in rounds of verbal pingpong. Let Boyd say "My head is splitting" (ping) and Wife Elke Sommer is sure to answer "So is our marriage" (pong). Milton Berle, Joseph Cotten, Jill St. John, Peter Lawford and Edie Adams all prove expert at the game...
...legal and social bans imposed by society. Obtaining drugs is a positive act which goes against the inertia of legal constraints--to ignore the restrictions requires some internal debate. Having decided that drugs were worth it, the students interviewed took particular pains to describe drug-induced sensations which defy verbal cliches. To the majority, pot manifests itself through dizzy spells and then painful awakenings; it made all of them thirsty and many nauseous. In addition there is an intense distortion of the sense of time which can be seen by extrordinary gaps in "high" convesations. The time lag does...
Students will have until April 23 to register for the three-hour test which will cover reading comprehension. Verbal relations, arithmetic reasoning, and data interpretation...
...most important rules--that the Inner Belt is both inevitable and necessary--make the game a losing one for Cambridge. The rules are well-established, but the Council's attempts to change them have thus far been limited to strong, but largely ineffective verbal dissent. It can, and should, do more...
OTHELLO. Playing the Moor of Venice in black face, Laurence Olivier often strikes verbal fire from the kindling poetry of Shakespeare's tragedy, but fails to ignite the smouldering passion of the inner...