Word: verbale
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...comedy hits of the spring and summer - Blades of Glory, Knocked Up, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Dave, Superbad - guys ruled. Dude comedy is all about males in competition: verbal and physical sparring, being assertive, spitting out insults, destroying the adversary. Basically, bullying. The men in dude comedies are Neanderthals...
Chabon is playing a double game here: he's a Pulitzer winner with the verbal chops of a mandarin writing in the voice of a junk-sick 1950s pulp hack who dreams of being a Pulitzer winner. He seems to find the masquerade liberating. For once he never has to stop the action or worry about the prose being too purple or not purple enough. Gentlemen contains only trace amounts of irony. Best of all--and this is good for Chabon, who, unlike Updike, has a sentimental streak--the characters feel emotions only when they want to, and never more...
...Euro banknotes, and yes, even some bling! More prominent than the bling and the foreign currency is the crack. Not to say there’s anything wrong with a little cook-up, but I don’t have nearly enough fingers to count all the visual and verbal references to the drug made throughout. What with all the subliminal-message-sending quick-cuts used by director Hype Williams, it’s hard not to come away from the video feeling a little strung out. “Blue Magic,” produced by and featuring...
...trade embargo on Cuba if the seriously ill Fidel Castro, as expected, is succeeded by his brother Raul, who already runs the government. Predictably, Fidel said Bush's speech reflected the U.S.'s desire to "reconquer" Cuba. And the Castro brothers aren't exactly cowed by these traditional verbal assaults. They have thrived on it in the past: heated U.S. rhetoric usually bolsters their image at home as the island's anti-Yanqui defenders. With plenty of material support from Hugo Chavez in Venezuela (about 90,000 barrels of oil per day on highly favorable finance terms), the embargo, though...
...last presidential election it was all about who served and who didn’t serve. I just want to move on and look to the future rather than past battles.” The rally was a high-security affair, and was not without verbal conflict. The large contingent of Obama supporters were at times shouted down by right-wing protestors holding signs that read, “America repent! Rejecting Jesus is choosing HELL” and “Same-sex marriage—abomination...