Word: dictional
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...encompasses this center of influence with vigor and style. Walter Isaacson, the Nation editor of TIME, and Evan Thomas, Washington bureau chief for Newsweek, rely heavily on anecdotes and quotations to convey the nuances of personality and politics. Harriman, son of an American robber baron, was hampered by mumbled diction and a seeming inattention to details. Lovett, who would serve as Secretary of Defense, was a childhood friend of % Harriman's. Acheson, Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953, was more responsible for the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine than the general and President whose names are forever associated...
...colors and loping harmonics of bebop, and especially in the laconic tempo of Gordon's speech and walk. Gordon, whose only previous movie gig was a stroll-on in the 1955 melodrama Unchained, commands the screen with the dignity of an exhausted emperor. He mines humor from his fastidious diction, has a ponderous grace and takes pauses that could drive Pinter nuts with impatience. No trained actor could have delivered this performance. For it is not so much a performance as an inspired riff on the theme of native sons abroad, talking to each other in a language they...
...known, his stubborn efforts to get modernism a hearing among the art-hating English 30 years before. All that is over, but the sculpture remains. When the best of it has been winnowed out -- which will take years, for the oeuvre is huge -- its grandeur of formal diction and intimacy of feeling will leave no doubt at all as to Moore's stature...
Dylan can twist his words into stunningly complex alliterative or rhyme schemes, using the sound of the words to build associations and feelings, or he can tell a simple story, constantly repeating verses or choruses with his improvised country diction to make his point. He can write about the endless variations of love or about the emptiness felt inside watching a derelict die on the street. His earliest songs, many of them never recorded, are wide-eyed youthful reflections on the misfortune and injustice he saw as he journeyed through America. He writes about having no money, he writes about...
Lack-luster though it was, The Sorceror is not without some good performances. Lisa Zeidenberg, playing the beautiful Aline, dazzled the audience with an elegant and refined voice. She sang with precise diction--an important factor in making fast-paced Gilbert and Sullivan verse comprehensible. Aline is engaged to marry the wealthy Alex Poindextre (played by Paul Moreaux), a naive Richie Rich who dreams of saving the world through a magical universal love. Alex's exploits create a mid-summer night's dream love tangle, where everyone falls in love with their personality opposite. Though Moreaux played the part...