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Internally, too, the characters are furiously trying to keep things from popping out of their skin. Their ping-pong verbal exchanges--all wrist-action--are fast and funny and ultimately uncommunicative. These people don't talk, they bounce word-pellets off each other. Everything ricochets with the angle of conditioned response, an idiom of cliche, more like music than words--a high-pitched constant background. Their tough, jabbing control in conversation speaks of boys who have grown up together, pulled farther apart and more jealous of each other as they go along. Indeed, we get a connecting sense throughout...
...gets packed with 43 people again and see if the bus isn't also filled with chatter, giggles, smiles and stories of filled phone booths. You should have been with us the time two junior high toughs had stalemated themselves in a fight which had reached the point of verbal threats and hair pulling. It really appeared that they did not want to keep fighting but did not know how to get out of it without losing face. So, we asked Jack to stop, we all piled out and pulled them apart (they barely resisted), and then we went...
...Boswell, A Bad Man and The Dick Gibson Show, Stanley Elkin demonstrated lavish verbal and comic gifts, a generosity of spirit and a talent for staging extravaganzas of the absurd. If his plots lurched and his ideas went off like random flares, Elkin's characters commanded attention because of the manic way they acted out their necessities...
SOONER or later, however, Cosell always returns to his main interest: himself. He congratulates himself for his grueling schedule--as if he performed a vital service--and is impressed by his "great verbal dexterity." He recalls with pride different occasions when he badgered athletes into being interviewed only minutes before a contest, when they should not have been disturbed...
...that he had approved the entire deal. It would not, he said, satisfy everyone. He did not like the fact that Agnew's guilt or innocence on the mass of charges would remain unresolved: "It would have been my pre erence to omit these statements and end the verbal warfare as to this tragic event in history." He said that when the accused standing before him is a lawyer, a tax accountant or business executive, he normally puts him in jail, and that is where he would have been inclined to send Agnew, were it not for the request...