Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this production. Parading a wardrobe of multi-colored peacockery that would put Prince to shame, Rosen refuses to give in to the air of lackluster seriousness that affects most of the other players. Rosen's de Guiche goes three or four stories over the top, but it makes his verbal contests with the self-effacing Cyrano that much more exhilarating...
Pounding the sides of the vehicle, the women were subject to blows and verbal abuse when the driver stopped and opened his door into the protesters, kicking several who tried to enter the motor home, the Sun reported...
HARVARD PEOPLE have developed a variety of defense mechanisms against such verbal and physical attacks, the most popular of which is backing down and saying "It means a lot more to them than it does to us." I don't believe such people as far as they could throw me; I know it means a lot to me to hear my mother's honor abused by a pimply teenage Satanist with hair like a chicken...
...operetta, animating the characters and plot, but failing to provide the imagination necessary to save the unhappy Yeomen. Choreography is drab and activity limp. When the show succeeds, it is through the rarely faltering cleverness of Bill Gilbert and Art Sullivan, who have never failed to provide enticing verbal and musical strands...
Clearly rising above the general adequacy is Miller, whose combination of verbal and athletic dexterity makes Jack Point at once the most convincing and most entertaining figure in the show. Whether leaping and somersaulting across the stage or acting the mock-Shakespearean trickster Gilbert envisioned Point to be, Miller possesses the vibrancy necessary to ignite the show...