Word: verbalizations
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Dorothy Parker, bang-browed verbal bangster, of late more preoccupied with causes than with her famed encaustics, mused: "Committee meetings poison my life. They're mainly lots of people sitting around with their heads in their hands. Then somebody finally says, 'Doesn't any body know Baruch...
...that winds up as a kind of fault, because the play resorts to outside enlightenment rather than selfrevelation; it tells rather than shows. The result is more like a solved cryptogram than a thing of flesh & blood. But, if not a satisfying experience, The Deep Mrs. Sykes, with its verbal claws and vivid theater, is very often a stimulating...
...several weeks, said Editor Thackrey, he had given her "space for her verbal tears of compassion for the ordinary Germans," although her views were "repugnant." Now Editor Thackrey baldly questioned her credentials as an expert: "Miss Thompson persuaded us once before . . . that Hitlerism would never be accepted by the German people...
...passionate dedication to the ideal of freedom. When the news of his death was flashed to the four quarters of the earth, the great men of the world sat down and began to construct tributes to him, the flowers for the dead that rarely go to the living. These verbal wreaths-some of them homemade with pain and care, some of them as professional as an undertaker's garland-heaped up to a catafalque of praise...
...association with Nat Goldstone) was a roaring hit before it ever opened. Even after the superlatives have settled and the hats have dropped from the air, it remains a superior musical. A shiny period piece, it has approached its job with talent and invested a fortune with taste. Verbal comedy aside, it is an unusually well-rounded show-good music, likable lyrics, attractive dancing, engaging performers, stylish sets, gorgeous costumes, not too awful a book. The one defect of such virtue is that by keeping to its sunny plateaus, Bloomer Girl never scales any peaks...