Word: orall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Goldwyn used to say that "a verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on." Last week a Los Angeles jury found differently. It ruled that actress Kim Basinger (912 Weeks, Batman) had breached an oral contract when she backed out of a commitment to star in the film Boxing Helena, and ordered her to pay $8.9 million in damages to the producers, Main Line Pictures...
Hollywood was shocked by the price but not by the verdict. "This is an oral town," notes one veteran agent, "a town of relationships." You take a lunch, you shake a hand, you make a movie...
...would keep his vows made in the assumption of his office?" The Rev. Jerry Falwell told his Old-Time Gospel Hour television audience on Nov. 8 that he objected to having a "womanizer" in the White House and said he had a tape of Clinton and Flowers discussing oral sex. Falwell did not reveal precisely the source or nature of the recording and, as if to spare his fellow worshippers the experience, told them he would not play it. But, he said, "it makes it a little hard for me having heard him say that . . . to, uh, respect...
...lesson succeeds appropriately through an act of language. Wiggins gets the young man to write his thoughts in a journal, nine pages of semiliterate dialect that should not work in 20th century fiction but does because Gaines delivers a written equivalent of authentic oral expression, not a romanticized rendering of black English...
...target for opponents. At a health-care forum last Friday in Tampa, Florida, a visibly tired Hillary listened quietly while witnesses made their cases for various reforms. She usually made her comments, such as they were, in the form of a question, much as Justices do when they hear oral arguments at the Supreme Court. Meanwhile the other 11 Hillarys were probably working back in Washington...