Word: verbale
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...fires off puns and bawdy jokes with a facility alternately Shakespearean and sophomoric. While the narrator never loses steam—sentences regularly stretch over one hundred words—readers might occasionally wish he’d pause to let the rest of us recover from the latest verbal landslide. I wish, for example, there were a few more scenes like that of the narrator’s Uncle Fernando air-dropped into a remote and impoverished Native American community. The near-lunar landscape, its equally alien and wordless inhabitants, and the echoes of pre-Colombian rite and myth...
...applying to many graduate programs, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) is in the process of making major revisions to the material and methods tested on the exam. The ETS, which also made changes to the SAT and the TOEFL last year, will redesign all three sections of the test: Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Analytical Writing. The company expects the changes to go into effect in October 2006. Overall, the revisions are an effort to try to make the test more pertinent to the type of work that graduate school demands, according to David G. Payne, the executive director...
...Kevin James has the kind of comic timing and delivery that’s unique on TV these days; while he’s no Michael Richards, as you may have seen in ‘Hitch’ he is a very adept physical comedian, combined with his verbal chops. He’s joined by one of the few sitcom wives with any personality, Leah Remini and the legendary Jerry Stiller—father of Ben—as her live-in father. This weeks’ episode marked the departure of Nicole Sullivan, who plays dog-walker...
...after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding her perky triumph as Mary Poppins, Julie turns every number into a bell ringer and gives the comedy its zestiest scene when she punctures her employer's vincible mettle with a few white-hot verbal thrusts...
...seismic wave of relief that practically knocks you to the floor when a TF speaks a clear and coherent sentence in English, you know your expectations have fallen unreasonably low for what your $40,000/year is supposedly buying. Meanwhile, the humanities TF can usually speak English, but uses what verbal abilities they possess mostly to muse such pearls of wisdom as, “Great idea,” “Wow, that’s an excellent point,” and “Hmm, I don’t know…what do you think...