Word: verbalism
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Compared with Ali's endless repertory of wit and rhyme, Foreman's verbal acrobatics seem hopelessly square. "Do you know the Pledge of Allegiance?" he will ask someone for fun. Or Foreman may test a visitor by asking him to recite the Lord's Prayer. Ali may soon lose his claim to being No. 1 in fast footwork. Last winter, when Foreman was living in Los Angeles, he studied ballet. Though he demonstrates pliés only when photographers' backs are turned, Foreman says, "I took up ballet after seeing a dance show in Las Vegas...
...serious warning about Whitney's: It is a male dominated institution and women who venture there are liable to suffer some mild verbal abuse from the patrons. When the revolution comes--sources expect it within the next five years--Whitney's will be a decent place...
This is where last year's phantom of "conflict-of-interest" once again rears its head. Hill says that Daly, Peterson, and Champion will all be treated just like other tenants when he finally sits down with them to discuss the plan. This is, of course, only a verbal promise from Hill, but it is probably more than coincidental that Hill, the man who is in charge of the arrangement, works for Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration and the only one of Bok's top financial aides who does not live in a Harvard-owned house...
...imagination are among the ingredients of this outstanding biography and separate it from Goldman's earlier writing. Tracing the roots and reaches of Bruce's genius, he writes in a style charged with Bruce's own idiom and raging humor and amazingly achieves in print something approaching the same verbal energy. You cannot read his harrowing descriptions of Bruce's needle ravaged limbs or his raucously humorous passages describing Lenny's absurd, infantile and frequently brutal relationships without entering deeply into the man's experience...
...Bruce and of scores of people who nurtured, cared for, lionized or harassed and preyed on him. He does so without in the least sanctifying Bruce himself, and he renders dignity and wholeness to people whom Bruce scorned. Goldman employs the same narrative techniques and extremities of diction, the verbal overkill, that characterize a faulted New Journalism, but he uses them with a measure of critical judgment, detached reflection and craft that others lack...