Word: verbalized
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...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis star in the screen version of Edward Albee's violently verbal shock treatment, subtly directed by Mike Nichols...
Traditionally, the first novelist bursts upon the literary scene like a day-old volcano-exploding platitudes, scattering an unbreathable ash of adjectives, devouring cash advances like sacrificial maidens. The noisy thing may turn out to be a mountain or a molehill, but on the chance of producing a verbal Vesuvius most publishers annually sponsor a series of these fictional eruptions, timing them to coincide with the great silence that descends on the book business between July 4 and Labor...
Only three times during the first two days did the marchers receive anything more than verbal abuse. They were pelted with eggs, once very briefly in Boston, once in Quincy, and more severely Sunday in Weymouth. None of the incidents was serious, however...
...play that provokes these thoughts is, despite its failure to achieve greatness, a very fine play indeed. Bolt has read his sources well and gives us an epic of substantial accuracy, deep feeling, and considerable verbal felicity. As a piece of theatre, it moves well, always keeping our attention, occasionally gripping it. A Man for All Seasons, six years after it opened in London, seems likely to have a long life...
...Mutilated) or attempts religious allegories (Milk Train) in which symbols masquerade as wonders. Arthur Miller thumbs disconsolately through a three-hour "Dear Diary" (After the Fall), making moralistic marginal notes on his past. Edward Albee has been a ventriloquist rather than a voice ever since he lit that verbal holocaust between the sexes, Virginia Woolf...