Word: verbalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrative, from the prose poems of Francis Ponge and the micro-essays of Jorge Luis Borges (quickness) to the encyclopedic and incomplete novels of Robert Musil and Carlo Emilio Gadda (multiplicity). He addresses a variety of literary problems. In his essay on visibility, for example, he contrasts visual and verbal imaginations, examining the prefabricated images of the mass media and their control over how we create pictures from words and words from pictures...
Eisenman said that because the Drug Enforcement Administration continues to work with Noriega and the Central Intelligence Agency is protective of the general, verbal commitments to oppose his rule mean little...
That pessimism is shared by Los Angeles Correspondent Jonathan Beaty, who also reported on this week's cover and has lunched with New York Mafia heads involved in the trade. "Despite all the political verbal pyrotechnics, cocaine is cheaper and more plentiful than it ever was," says Beaty. "The drug cartels are posing a greater threat to U.S. national security than any bands of ragtag Communist insurgents. That is a lesson still to be learned...
...Duncan has given us leadership since her freshman year," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith says. "She is verbal, enthusiastic and committed to the game...
...While I was silently adding Clorox to my wash, a blue-haired elderly woman suddenly turned from putting her wash in the dryer and clicked over to me in her orthopedic shoes. Holding a ball of lint in her hands, like a damning piece of evidence, she began her verbal onslaught...