Word: spokenness
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...himself that “Debaters” was something special. “When I read the script, I just liked the script. I thought it was an interesting story—the little train that could. I was attracted to the fact that it was about the spoken word. Dominant aspects of our culture now are hip hop, rap, and poetry.” He goes on to praise the script, which he read for the first time over three years ago, for containing the three basic elements that every great movie requires: “It made...
...you’ve ever spoken to a Chicagoan about his hometown, you probably already know the answer: we love ourselves. The breeze coming off Lake Michigan might not be as strong as the one felt on the shores of the Charles, but the wind coming out of our mouths can blow anyone away. Chicago has a long and proud history of, well, being proud of itself, and it’s a tradition that Chicagoans of today proudly carry...
...Powers’s interpreters, is the pace of the person speaking. Interpreters run into trouble with people who speak softly or very quickly, explained Stewart in an e-mailed statement. In addition to interpreters, some deaf students use a captioning system, in which they can watch the words spoken in class on their laptop. “I was quite pleased to see that we do have a disabled policy to facilitate these kind of classes,” said Hasan K. Siddiqi ’08, another student in Justice. “I try to put myself...
...Bell went to video. Attempting a sermon for a standard 21-min. TV slot, he and three friends came up with just 10 strong minutes. These morphed into the Nooma--a 12-min., high-end short melding Bell's spoken narrative and a seemingly unrelated visual into a compelling homily. The format is unique in the world of Evangelicalism or, really, anywhere. If the father of a young child can watch Rain, a divine-love parable featuring Bell and his son during a storm, and not fight tears, he is Christopher Hitchens. The 18 Nooma DVDs have sold 1.2 million...
...Spoken like some grungy geek from Seattle. Except that in China, apparently, the definition of social security might include a stipend from the army...