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Word: verbally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparently do not attend the College, earlier in the night had made "excessive gestures" towards an Adams House woman and engaged in a verbal exchange with another guest, said a sophomore, who asked not to be identified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Arrest Man at Adams House Party | 3/7/1989 | See Source »

Scorsese is hardly a highly verbal filmmaker. His gift is to pack the equivalent of a thousand words of dialogue into a single elegant image. Life Lessons is about a bearish artist (Nick Nolte) whose reputation is currently bullish in chic circles but is distinctly on the decline as far as his lover assistant (Rosanna Arquette) is concerned. Both actors are excellent, as is Richard Price's script, which is taken from a passage in Dostoyevsky's life. But it is from the observation of simple things -- a slo-mo close-up of a cigarette being discarded, a brush slathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three's Company | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

Equality also means understanding that public physical affection between two persons of the same gender is just as acceptable as it is between persons of the opposite sex. Until I can walk through the Yard hand-in-hand with another man without fear of physical violence or verbal abuse, the promise of tolerance at Harvard is unkept...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Exploding the Myth of Tolerance | 3/2/1989 | See Source »

...that many of the barbs that have been hurled at the medium are warranted. Serial callers espousing offbeat or racist theories can often get on the air before producers catch on to their voices and their schtick. Radio personalities like New York's Howard Stern do indeed thrive on verbal violence, personal attacks and explosive behavior...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Talking About Talk Radio | 2/23/1989 | See Source »

...attached to a long fishing line that appears to be free for the taking on the floor. When a waiter went for the bait, Bush quickly snatched it out of reach. Bush and his host, the Chinese Ambassador, found the gag great fun. Barbara, whose humor tends to be verbal, rolled her eyes and turned to the Ambassador: "You're going to have your work cut out for you with the new Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silver Fox | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

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