Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wertmuller is, of course, attempting to stage another attack on the male macho principle in this, her newest film The audience gets several tedious verbal and visual lectures on the beauty of female sexuality. Large sculptures of ancient fertility deities serve as a backdrop as Oscar's wife discusses the oppression of women through the ages. Most of the male characters are portrayed with the same comic flatness that marked and marred Steven Speilberg's The Color Purple. Men fight ridiculous fights, and say ridiculous things in bed, while they garner physical pleasures from Wertmuller's beautiful bisexual females...
Coming from a seasoned campaigner with a reputation for masterly verbal pyrotechnics, the words seemed slightly absurd. "God is with us!" President Ferdinand Marcos declared before a crowd of 50,000 in Davao on the southern island of Mindanao. "God knows that to protect the Filipino people, (we) must...
Although the debate provided an occasion for verbal sparring among frontrunners, the candidates found much common ground. Each stressed the importance of lowering the $150 billion trade deficit and making American industry more competitive in world markets...
...Bliss actually reasserts life by concentrating on the ceremony of dying. Vitality and color, charisma and charm, abound in the visages of the living inhabitants, most notably the fire seller, whose joie de vivre consumes the screen. And this juxtaposition of life with death necessitates audience observation, not verbal explanation...
While many team captains are very verbal leaders, Ilacqua leads by silent but deadly--for Yale's opponents--example...