Word: grunting
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...collection is the title story, which is a partial return to the dream kingdoms of the earlier works. With powerful brevity, Borges limns a decadent nation where language-and all that it implies of hope and beauty -is the execrated enemy. Disdaining vowels, Borges' updated Yahoos grunt only in consonants. When they want to open what passes for a conversation, they fling mud. Their king is protected from mortal corruption by being blinded and castrated...
...Elliott Trudeau two years ago memorably summed up the two countries' relationship: "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly or even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." Now Canadians have discovered what happens to a bedmate -when the elephant starts tossing and turning...
...long ago, a white sergeant caught a black Marine dozing on perimeter guard duty at Danang. The sergeant grabbed the sleeping grunt by the throat and told him: "If I were a V.C., you would be dead." That night the Marine lobbed a grenade into the sergeant's hootch, killing him and sending two other NCOs to hospitals in Japan...
...become at portraying older men that one would never guess he is really a young man. When we first see the King, he is ailing; Sommer makes clear that the King is not only tired of state business but also just plain tired, as he gives a slight grunt from the exertion of stepping up to the throne. When he is led to reminisce about Bertram's deceased father, his eyes glaze over as nostalgia takes him back to better times long gone. After Helena has cured him, the two of them execute a dance; he launches into his speech...
...members of the cast line up, face the audience and flash shy, charming smiles. They march a lot too, keeping time by smacking sticks and shaking tambourines. They love to pretend they are being birds and animals. If necessary, they will speak. But they prefer to sing, dance or grunt as they mime their mysterious little charades−a kind of show-and-mostly-don't-tell...