Word: spokenness
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...thing. There's lights going: purple, orange, red. Smoke, too. And a screen with some weird video clips on it. Pretty much all the bells and whistles you'd expect somebody to have if they couldn't communicate to you in spoken syllables. An odor of marijuana in the front, there. Very exciting. Well, not really. Sort of awkward, actually, for a hopelessly un-hip blog, which doesn't have time on a Sunday afternoon to get blasted out of its gourd so that...
...attend last night’s screening—she is recovering from back surgery—her philosophy touched every part of Johnson’s project. The footage of Delaney-Smith’s speeches on the Lavietes Pavilion sideline, coaches and players’ soft-spoken remarks in front of the camera, and the film’s own status as the artist’s fledgling idea all contribute to a short but affecting project.“If you ‘act as if,’ it becomes a reality...
...replace France's dysfunctional-and often harmful-post-colonial relationship with Africa with a more open and democratic one, his comments were widely criticized as caricaturizing and racist. In recalling them during her Dakar visit, Royal asked for "pardon for those humiliating words that never should have been spoken, and which-I tell you in all certainty-represent neither France or the French people...
...proved is that you can ignite something in the American people at the grassroots level that can help win an election and potentially change the country. He showed that you could win being who you are, and that the American people are willing to be leveled with and spoken to honestly… Not every campaign will have the success we did in igniting the grassroots and having them play such an important role in the campaign and the ultimate victory. But campaigns should try, because having people involved in their government is very good for this country...
Almost every faculty member I've spoken to thinks that it would be a bad idea, because students are very young, almost volatile. Giving an "F," for example, to a student who is armed is a daunting prospect. But I wont dismiss this argument the way many people will. I think students have a point. If we can't keep them safe, don't they have a right to keep themselves safe...