Word: rote
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glenn is so prosaic that sometimes he has trouble reciting the vivid rhetoric of his staff-written speeches. His off-the-cuff remarks are rote and usually filled with military acronyms, numbing statistics and gawky phrases like "Nobel laureate-type research." He rarely seems loose in public, let alone passionate. Nor is it just a matter of style: his ideas tend to be fuzzy when they are not unimaginative. "Voters are looking for candidates with some vision of what this country can be," says Chicago's Lawrence Walsh, a media consultant...
...when it's got a surehanded junior guard who sinks free throws by rote...
...CENTRAL INGREDIENT missing from Old Acquaintance is energy. The characters move with a distinct sense of unease, reciting their lines by rote as if they're reading from the script. From the sense of ennui and uncertainty the actors themselves generate, it is difficult to determine whether they lack adequate preparation or are simply sick of reciting the same old lines. When the characters occasionally do interact with each other, the result seems more like children squabbling over marbles than adults bickering over marriage...
...just before one of the military's periodic withdrawals from power, Alfonsin challenged the aging party war horse, Ricardo Balbin, for the Radical presidential nomination. Alfonsin was intent on proving that voters could be lured away from their rote support of Peronismo. Said he: "It is intolerable that there should be any authoritarian component in a popular movement." He lost, but gained a name for himself in party ranks. When the Radicals held their nominating convention last July following the junta's vow to hold national elections, he was ready...
...make it to Philadelphia? "Better Baby Video," a California-based spinoff, can provide the same lessons in a weeklong course offered primarily in West Coast cities. Some critics believe that a11 this mainly makes babies learn a few skills by rote, but it is difficult to obtain any scientific assessment of the five-year-old institute...