Word: dictional
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Heinz was a multimillionaire at birth, thanks to the food-processing empire built by his antecedents-he calls it "that little pickleworks down in Pittsburgh." He has diplomas, manners and diction from Exeter, Yale and Harvard Business School. He does wondrous things on ski slopes, plays hand tennis and jogs two miles almost daily. On learning that a new campaign adviser had once been a competitive swimmer, Competitor Heinz's first reaction was a challenge: "I bet I could beat you if we went just one lap." Heinz is also a picky employer who has problems with his staff...
...more exalted kind of Aristotelean tragedy. In the Salem play, rounded and shaded characters are mostly absent; Miller's moral position was so strong that he seemed able to deal only in blacks and whites. There is here an inescapable preachiness and an occasional failure of the diction to satisfy the demands of subject and context...
...journalist since she was 17, Rippon joined the network as a reporter in 1973 and worked in Belfast, Rome and London. Along the way she developed the icy stare and prim demeanor of a schoolmarm, plus the flawless, classless diction of-well, a BBC announcer. "All weightiness and reliability," says a satisfied Todd of his Angela and her new colleagues. Nor is he the only one impressed with Rippon: she recently received the Radio Industries Club's Newscaster of the Year award...
...only remnant of two months work would be a stack of slides the producer arranges in a small, plastic carousel. "AAAaaah, Ooooh, la-la-la-la-la-ne-ne-ne-t-t-t-;" gregarious gobs gather in garious groups." The cast hopped and stomped, up and down, practicing diction and singing scales, up and down. The man who paced was Kenneth LaZebnik, director-cum-ringmaster and coach now warming (or frenzying) up his actors in the few minutes before curtain...
...poet is still experimenting with style in this chapbook. If the poems weren't collected under a certain name, you might not guess that they all come from the same writer because Miriam Sagan hasn't settled into a recognizable tone of voice or mode of diction yet. Her work is compiled largely of images. From the careful control she maintains over each of these, it is evident that she is attuned to the way words balance one another. Sometimes this sense shows through as long as the poem lasts. A structure may emerge that is based on poetic techniques...