Word: verbalism
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Ford's office is inundated by requests for appearances anywhere and everywhere. Congressmen plead and threaten for audiences. And in the mail the other day came a dispatch from Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who has performed verbal lobotomies on many of the world's great men, the newswoman who warmly coaxed Henry Kissinger into describing himself as a kind of diplomatic Lone Ranger. Oriana Fallaci has found a place in her crowded schedule to request an interview with Jerry Ford...
...program. The BBC did not balk when told that the show would be "anarchic and free." Recalls Cleese: "They thought they were getting another latenight satire show. It wasn't that at all." Constantly testing sketches on one another, the Pythons were bent on turning English literary and verbal humor into a series of sight gags. They soon enlisted a new recruit, Minnesota-born Terry Gilliam, whose animated graphics are a favorite device for closing a sketch. "We worked intuitively," explains Cleese of those early days. "We went looking for stupid things. We just wanted to pick...
...film has almost no verbal humor. A Frenchman shouts insults at the knights, but he's nothing compared to the man in "The Argument Clinic," and the soundtrack compounds the problem by being substandard. Even the music (by ex-Bonzo Dog Band member Neil Innes) is lackluster, without any of the tang or catchiness of "The Lumberjack Song" or "Dennis More...
...February 10, the DISC proposal was sent to President Bok. Prof. Andrew Brimmer, and members of the Advisory Board. At that time, meetings with the Advisory Board were requested. Verbal and written requests were made for an appointment with President Bok via the Massachusetts Hall receptionist. Not one of these requests was answered. Later attempts were made to meet with the Advisory Board; these were also refused, DISC representatives communicated with Advisory Board members individually, until this line of communication was cut when Prof. Brimmer asked the members of the Board to retrain from making official statements concerning the workings...
Rootless Outsider. Watergate is too recent to permit calm interpretation. Yet four professional President watchers and one street-wise verbal brawler with a police reporter's eye and literary style to match, have dared to look back in anger or regret. Perhaps because Americans are weary of grandiose pronouncements, it is the writers who think smallest who seem most worth reading...