Word: babeling
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...curtain, like big game in a tree trap. The pace slowed: "I can't read my monitor," James Earl Jones rumbled like an Old Testament prophet rebuking his flock. Most of all, the pretension showed: birthday candles were lit on a cake that looked like the Tower of Babel, as discomfited luminaries dished up decades of encapsulated world history in which the Actors' Fund got featured billing ("A Russian named Pavlov used dogs to study conditioned reflexes, and the Actors' Fund was 25 years...
From there on, Babel became the aggressor, where before it had been Brog. The Princeton junior broke from a 10-10 tie in game four to a 15-10 win, and continued to ride the momentum to a 15-7 victory in the final game...
...Schwarz, New York City's premier toy store, sold out its initial shipment of 864 Snakes in a week. Copy-cubers have devised multicolored variations of Rubik's baffler in the shape of pyramids, octagons and cylinders. A new puzzle marketed in France called the Tower of Babel has sold 600,000 copies in three months at a price of about...
...that freedom does not always lead to the clearest statements. Today, she insists, fashion has become a Tower of Babel: "The BBC cameraman who buys his gear when on assignment in the States, and the American lady executive whose clothes were made in Italy, are in a sense imaginary citizens of Los Angeles and Rome, and may be expected to manifest some of the traits associated with these cities." Of course, some people simply do not care what their apparel says about them: ''An article may be worn because it is warm or rainproof or handy to cover...
What with the actor's Hispanic inflections, the babel of voices around him and a hot samba, Prospero sometimes seems to be presiding over a banana republic...