Word: verbalism
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...changes in the messages the brain receives through the senses can alter its structure and function. When no transmissions arrive from the eyes in someone who has been blind from a young age, for instance, the visual cortex can learn to hear or feel or even support verbal memory. When signals from the skin or muscles bombard the motor cortex or the somatosensory cortex (which processes touch), the brain expands the area that is wired to move, say, the fingers. In this sense, the very structure of our brain--the relative size of different regions, the strength of connections between...
...award for Best Acceptance Speech goes, ex aequo, to two Cambridge grads. Baron Cohen simultaneously raised the bar for gross-out verbal art and the hackles of NBC censors when he said that, in making Borat, "I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America... I refer of course to the anus and testicles of my costar Ken Davitian. Ken, when I was in that scene and I... saw your two wrinkled golden globes on my chin, I thought to myself, I better win a bloody award for this." He then described, in awesome olfactory detail...
...press conference Wednesday morning, President George Bush made an interesting verbal pivot, which was not lost on senior military officers listening in the Pentagon. Talking about troop levels in Iraq, Bush did not use his usual line that the commanders on the ground would get whatever they need. Instead, he said he would "listen" to the commanders...
...moment of recklessness, Buford, a journalist with no culinary training, became a kitchen slave--his words--to Mario Batali. It takes a big talent to render in words the animal, essentially anti-verbal experience of eating. It takes a big man to describe the hilarious humiliations to which an apprentice chef is subjected. Buford is both. He's also lucky: the brilliant, insatiable, demonic Batali is the kind of character writers sell their souls...
...family was killed in the Holocaust—this had a profound influence upon his work. One of the films being shown in the series, “Five Graves to Cairo,” is a thriller that examines the conflicts of World War II within the verbal skirmishes between two military officers. “Here Wilder addresses the issue of the German camps of genocide, but it is done in a very comic way,” says Tom Conley, Lowell professor of Romance languages and literatures...