Word: verbalism
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Composed on the heels of HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance is one of the best known of the Gilbert and Sullivan canon. The show has very little dialogue; there's nothing here, for instance, to rival the verbal pyrotechnics between the two peers in Iolanthe or the pompous flatulence of Poo-Bah in The Mikado. Pirates' fame derives rather from its score, which is a typical G&S mix of rousing chorus numbers, patter songs and take-offs on Italian grand opera...
...Bull. Burly, ebullient and pipe smoking, the bespectacled barrister is anything but timid-the description Nationalist Leader Joshua Nkomo applied to the British role in the negotiations. That much, at least, was made clear two days before the conference opened when Richard waded into what he called a "good verbal punch-up" with a member of an African nationalist delegation...
...assistant director of the Boston OCR said last week that the report, which is now on his desk, is unacceptable, because it does not reflect a verbal report he received from its authors earlier this year. With this disclosure, the future of the report is further thrust into doubt...
Nobody seems to understand the inner mechanics of the local OCR office and why the written report does not reflect the verbal...
...million or so viewers came back each time for the presidential debates and, says Small, "they stayed until the end-there was no audience tail-off." Obviously they wanted to know, good or bad. Harris insists that, as never before in political history, the smiles, the thoughts, bad words, verbal goofs have penetrated to darkest ghetto and most remote hamlet...