Word: verbalized
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...interview, Cuba's Guillermo Cabrera Infante manages to set up a showy verbal circus, as full of puns, mockery and acerb wit as his novel Three Trapped Tigers, which was published in the U.S. last year. He wrote the book in the early 1960s, while employed as a magazine editor and cultural attaché producing revolutionary rhetoric for Fidel Castro, whom he detests-"a gangster who has become a policeman." The only things that are run well in Cuba, Cabrera Infante says, are "the three Ps-police, propaganda and paranoia as a system of government." Not surprisingly...
...reminding us of his earlier films -- not of the little tramp he used to play but of the range of emotions his skilled movements could bring forth and of the warmth in his eyes. Yet this recently re-released 1952 film is a disappointment because it is so insistently verbal and thus undercuts the very basis of Chaplin...
Thomas A. Gill '76, the chief organizer and master of ceremonies for the dinner, was the frequent target of verbal abuse and flying chunks of food at the chaotic affair...
...lyrics are instructive in an ironic way. They prove that good politics does not necessarily equal good music. What Ono hasn't learned is that an honest verbal expression of self does not constitute art unless the writer is honestly artistic. The words must capture a mood, an image, an idea with feeling to which others may grab hold to drift along with the song. How can you get excited about a lyric like...
...feel strongly that legitimate protests by students for the abolition of unjust and unfair laws is a freedom that should be guaranteed by every government. To sentence students to jail terms without a fair trial for verbal insults to police officers is a mockery of the heritage of democratic principles which originated in Greece...