Word: spokenly
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...reach the whole world by television," Belgian CARDINAL GODFRIED DANNEELS told Time shortly before the death of the Pope. "You can be very close to everyone, individually." That observation is notable less for its shopworn truth than for the fact that Danneels, a blunt-spoken former liturgy professor on some short lists to be the next Pope, has essentially conceded the degree to which John Paul II's personal magnetism and its electronic deployment have made photo-ready charisma a nearly essential element of the papal job description...
...terms of spoken language, the dialogue between the quotation-sound-clips and the words or vocals they generate themselves takes on different forms. In “be good to them always,” there is a mirroring effect: the band’s vocals overlay the same lines spoken by various other voices in found audio clips. Recorded readings of “The Jabberwocky” and lines spoken in various languages are followed by vocals singing out-of-order lines from Carol’s poem in “vogt dig for kloppervok...
...take up these stories in a format many find inaccessible? Sex and violence that can feel overwhelming and deadening on screen—think Showgirls or The Passion of The Christ—is exciting and alive on the page. Sentiments that seem ludicrous spoken become empowering or frightening or sickening on the printed page...
...role very seriously, spending more time each week planning the game than actually playing it. As the DM, he is responsible for setting up the imagined universe. He dictates the players’ situations, the powers of their characters, and the enemies they meet. The game transpires entirely through spoken conversation—no computers necessary—and every round is unique...
...betrayal. A gender betrayal. And I am a woman who is seen as Barbarella, a character existing on some subliminal level as an embodiment of men's fantasies; Barbarella has become their enemy. I have spent the last two years working with GIs and Vietnam veterans and have spoken before hundreds of thousands of antiwar protesters, telling them that our men in uniform aren't the enemy. I went to support them at their bases and overseas, and will, in years ahead, make Coming Home so that Americans can understand how the wounded were treated in VA hospitals...