Word: rhyming
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...touch can kill." Lisa (Janet Margolin) is a 15-year-old girl with soft brown eyes and schizophrenia. She is split into two well-defined personalities. As Lisa she is a silly four-year-old who talks all the time but only in a "word salad" seasoned with rhyme ("A big fat sow-and how and how"); as Muriel she is a demure adolescent who communicates in writing because she can't talk...
...their doctor (Howard da Silva) works with steady devotion, and one day a miracle happens. Lisa comes sidling up to David and says shyly: "Me, the same; Lisa, the name." Startled but pleased, David replies: "Me, the same; David, the name." After that they often talk, though always in rhyme-when they talk in prose, Muriel comes back, and Lisa doesn't like Muriel. But she adores David, and he is half in love with...
...absurd rhyme gives it the sound of a jingle thought up by the College outline series as a mnemonic gadget for students who must know the philosopher's main preoccupations. Even at that, it is confused and ineffectual. When I learn of belief clattering, I want to know more, to hear the clatter more distinctly; instead I am handed myth swooning, a concept at least equally vacuous...
...Handy Rhyme. When the Senate met again after the weekend, Senator Maurine Neuberger delivered a 4½-hour speech against the bill−by far the longest speech ever vented by a woman member of the U.S. Senate. She thereby sparked a small argument among veteran Senate galleryites about whether she should be called a filibusterer or a filibustress. Near the end of her speech, Maurine noted that when she taught English back in Oregon she used to quote a little rhyme to her pupils as an example of anticlimax: O dear, what shall I do? I've lost...
...Maudling shot back: "I detect one or two notes of acidity, no doubt arising from mixing cheap bitter and sour grapes." Maudling, whose own tastes run to dry martinis and dancing barefoot on the Riviera with his pretty wife, has an undeserved reputation for indolence. According to a malicious rhyme that once made the rounds of the Commons, Reg Has no edge And Maudling Is dawdling...