Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years up to the early 70's for more attention was paid to the text-in reworking things, editing and even proof reading-and the emphasis was on word play and puns," he adds, "In other words the work moved from verbal to visual...
...from slipping into the atrophy of an artificially into the atrophy of an artificially sustained monologue it moves it advances, it retreats. The finest moments leave the reader, the eavesdropper, the innocent voyeur, with a mingled sense of horror and satisfaction at the audacity with which Barthes engages in verbal fencing: (from Le Nouvel Observateur...
...well reflected the old Reagan, the one unburdened by presidential propriety. And at the White House last Wednesday, having reaffirmed her intention to go back to academe, she rushed from the Oval Office declaring she had to return to New York and bolster Chad as it went into verbal battle with villainous Libya. In the end, of course, her very virtuosity kept her from the pinnacles of power. Now Ambassador-at- Large Vernon Walters, a world troubleshooter for six Presidents, is likely to take...
...contest has been full "verbal checking," according to Kwong...
...Verbal or not, Keffer will be around for those and a hall more years. While the Crimson is not likely to challenge seriously for the Ivy crown this year, the next ten years may bring such a contender...