Word: dictional
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...Perot's followers into the Democratic fold. Late in the afternoon, when some aides complained that the speech was too long, the candidate defended it by claiming that it had fewer words than Michael Dukakis' 1988 oration. Actually, the Massachusetts Governor's text was shorter, and his lightning-fast diction made his delivery time shorter still. In his own laid-back drawl, Clinton took about 55 minutes to deliver his address. Recalling the fiasco of Clinton's interminable 1988 speech, his verbosity last week seemed on the verge of losing his audience, but a powerful delivery and some surefire applause...
...brought to the Metropolitan amounts to a portrait of a company embarking on a cultural shift. Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov are first-rate productions that offer what opera lovers want to hear: Russian classics performed with great depth of detail -- in orchestration, diction and idiomatic style. The Kirov embodies the Russian tradition of opera, which is very different from the Western one. As the maestro says, "The chorus and the orchestra are the hero. The chorus is < stronger than any star, and it must be a single personality divided into a hundred parts...
...same sentence. And if at times the sheer weight of detail may almost be dizzying to a newcomer, the text is enlivened at every turn by all the familiar props of the Hughes voice -- the mischievous erudition (translating a Latin motto as "Far down! Far out!"), the rococo diction ("fribblers" and "cutpurses" abound) and the Augustan bite (asides that wither "the mingy veneering of today's 'lite' architecture"). Beneath the virile lucidity of the prose, however, is a subtle and sensitive mind that can lead the reader, patiently, into complexity: "In Gaudi one sees flourishing the egotism achieved by those...
...well, a careful dresser, an elocution student struggling to improve his diction and a citizen eager to put his hit man's skill to patriotic use; he fondly nurtured a plan to assassinate Mussolini. Above all, he was bedazzled by the mutual admiration that developed between him and the movie stars and moguls he met after moving to Los Angeles to oversee his syndicate's West Coast gambling interests. That he was subject to outbursts of violently sociopathic, possibly psychopathic, rage in no way damaged his self- estimation and probably enhanced his glamour in Hollywood's eyes. In a town...
...Waltzer's performance as the father hints at inexperience. He stumbles through some lines, and his gestures are occasionally awkward. Karl Lampley created a respectable Jamie, although he does not project as much "Broadway diction" robustness as O'Neil delincates for the role...