Word: verbalism
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...Verbal Trickery. In its tough stand, the White House wanted to burst whatever illusions Begin might harbor about the U.S. position. To achieve that, of course, the statement need not have been public. But the Administration also wanted to preserve its role as mediator by emphasizing the distance between its view of the shape of a possible settlement and Jerusalem's. Moreover, Begin's line is now being vocally defended by many U.S. Jews, which is causing growing friction between the White House and the American Jewish community. Thus the State Department broadside was also intended...
...this game of verbal lawn tennis, the two bogus brothers are matched with two demurely saucy maidens. As Cecily Car dew and Gwendolen Fairfax, Kathleen Widdoes and Patricia Conolly lob and volley Wilde's lines with devastating precision. The Fourth of July will be a little early this year. Over Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, comic flares light the night...
...bureaucratic ass-covering that goes on when guys write long-range stuff. They don't want to be wrong, so they tend to be glib and platitudinous." Yet many Government officials say that CIA experts are much more explicit and insightful when they make verbal assessments-in meetings or on the phone-and do not have to write and file reports that could come back to haunt them...
...quite distant future. Go down the checklist of a classic Western's ingredients, and few items will be missing in the Lucas recipe: bounty hunters with no morals; sleazy smugglers who will handle any contraband--including political rebels--and who don't pronounce the final letter of an -ing verbal; a barroom brawl with laser guns instead of fisticuffs; even a posse chase with spacecraft in the place of swift stallions...
Sandwiched around the bar and the jugglers is a revue of songs, skits and jokes tied together by the clever verbal slapstick of their humor, the energy and talent of the excellent cast and the fact that many of the lines of the lyrics do not end precisely when the lines of the music...