Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have spoken with other Harvard students about this incident, mainly women, and none have seemed as upset as I am. Why not? Perhaps they are simply thinking about themselves and their experiences at final clubs. In this situation, though, because of the age of the two girls, you cannot just rely on personal experience...
...late to do anything. Not having stopped my pace, I was well past the tour group. Even if I had gone back, what would I have said? I can't speak a lick of French beyond bonjour and aurevoir. Would I have used exaggerated hand gestures and have spoken in a really loud voice, trying to say, "HI! MY NAME IS WILL! WHAT'S YOURS?" Would I have mentioned Jerry Lewis or World Cup soccer in a vain attempt to find some common ground...
...when the text was forgotten, truths of her soul were brought forth by the flash of her hands and the serene voice that is only hers. One convoluted question came from the back of the theatre, read rather than spoken due to its length. After a pause and recuperation from the audience, Whoopi lucidly gave an unrehearsed answer with confidence...
...these while winding intricate thoughts into the heads of her characters. Rarely, if ever, does the omniscient narrator comment on the characters or their actions. One area where Moore seems inclined to stray away from the norm is dialogue; all too often, people say things that just aren't spoken by normal people; they're spoken by people in existentialist plays or in college lectures on surrealism. Occasionally these can be distracting--it's hard to believe that these lines are coming from her own experience--but they're part of her style, and it can work either...
...might expect that a news entity that calls itself "America's Finest News Source" would want the boast spoken by James Earl Jones and accompanied by John Williams theme music. In fact, the title has been appropriated by the Onion, a droll weekly newspaper published in Madison, Wis., devoted to producing deadpan, dead-on parodies of the resolutely low-key news reports wire services put out. Consider these recent headlines...