Word: verbalizations
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Mary, Mary. Jean Kerr's often funny, always likable, verbal pingpong match between a wisecracking divorcee and her publisher husband is just diverting enough to overcome the rather thin narrative...
When TV added sight to sound, the hope was that the comic scene would be enriched with visual as well as verbal guffaws. Instead, the Big Eye seems to transfix comedians into frozen-faced patter-pushers. Visual gags, when they happen, are a cut below Charley's Aunt. With vaudeville dead, the turn of last resort has been the old silents. Last week some of this vintage wackiness seemed to have rubbed off on Comedian Ernie Kovacs who interrupted his regularly scheduled program of reruns, Silents, Please, with a half-hour of bubbleheadedness of his own. While...
...creeps"), and he suffers from the peculiar delusion that anything written about a cocktail party is bound to be funny. He also lapses frequently into college humor (speaking of nervous ailments: "Have you heard of the roofer who got shingles from Sears, Roebuck?"), and sesquipedalian prose ("Amidst verbal wonders and linguistic portents the stultification of English was caused by the decapitation of words as well as by unwonted lengthening"). But at his best he is a very funny man. Readers will be well advised to hold their sides and beware of that first fine careless rupture...
...protest against the decision to print College diplomas in English of the traditional Latin swept the University yesterday. More than 250 and several Faculty members sharply criticized the move in a flood of on petitions, and verbal attacks...
...California girl, sub-par in math, who scored in the upper 2% on the N.M.S. verbal test. Outstanding in writing and history, she is one of 20 winners "showing superior attainment and promise in one field...