Word: interrupters
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...author Schiller wrote in a foreword that from the very start, before they could even get the tape going, Simpson gushed ``like torrents cascading from a ruptured dam'' and that Schiller had to interrupt him to channel his thoughts. As it turned out, Schiller could have channeled a little more carefully. In one passage, for instance, Simpson describes his rage over biased press coverage as he sat in the back of Al Cowling's Bronco. ``Dan Rather was on the radio and he started talking about eight or nine different reports of domestic spousal abuse calls from my house...
...point, not wanting to interrupt a critic's query, Parker rose and tiptoed around the table. Pausing between two critics, she reached over the table, and grabbed the salt shaker...
...share his knowledge with them. Under his tutelage, they learned how to seize control of a telephone account and alter services at will. One trick: turning a rival's home telephone into a pay phone, so that whenever his parents tried to dial a number an operator would interrupt to say, "Please deposit 25 cents...
...narrative techniques interrupt the flow of the film and Angel's odd appearances only hinder the storytelling instead of enhancing it. Angel sneakily walks on and off the screen, but the revelation of who he is does not justify these constant interruptions. Furthermore, and most importantly, what he says does not embellish, inform or further the progress of the story. He is useless...
Being in America can change a Candian--Prabhu says that now "I jaywalk with abandon and I interrupt with abandon." And in all of Harvard College, one might argue, there's no better training ground for interrupting others than the Undergraduate Council...