Word: logorrhea
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...addiction can only get worse as the National Football League next year adds two more games to its regular-season schedule, and an additional play-off game as well. A new contract with ABC could mean Howard Cosell on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday . . . terminal logorrhea. The most innovative aspect of the new regular-season scheduling is the matching of teams according to their standings at the end of the previous year. Thus, for example, the Los Angeles Rams, who finished atop the N.F.C. West this year, next fall will play the Pittsburgh Steelers, No. 1 in the A.F.C. Central. Second...
UNITED NATIONS The Planetary Spirit As the General Assembly of the United Nations settled down for its 26th session last week, the traditionally wide-ranging opening debate allowed almost everyone a chance to speak his mind on almost anything. Amid the logorrhea, the delegates were able to point to one U.N. achievement. From Geneva, representatives of 25 nations forwarded to the General Assembly a draft agreement to destroy germ weapons. The U.N. must approve the convention, and then the nations who sign it will have nine months to reduce their bacteriological arsenals...
...Barnes." Dance and Music Critic B. H. Haggin briskly summed up Barnes' critical efforts as "uncomprehending nonsense." The critic's critics have not been entirely unjust. Barnes' manic dance criticism often reads more like promotion than analysis. And frequently a drama review will come down with logorrhea simply because he didn't have time to write a short...
What keeps a man and his soap apart for so long? Bad but heavily significant puns. Long scatological accounts of constipation that add up to a plain case of logorrhea. Recurring signs and symbols planted like a Freudian scavenger hunt. Above all, the metaphysical pseudo-Joycean rhetoric of a sometime poet, sometime screenwriter from Hollywood ("The mind is a revolving snowflake out of the backblackward...
Once Clay confined himself to spouting poetry and proclaiming "I am the greatest." Then he won the world heavyweight championship, joined the Black Muslims, changed his name to Muhammad Ali-and his loquaciousness turned to logorrhea. He railed bitterly against the U.S. war effort in Viet Nam and set out to dodge the draft...