Word: verbalism
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...clear nor completely verifiable, but what is clear is that something is amiss in New York City. The controversy began with an as yet unreleased video of interviews with Jewish and Israeli students, produced by the advocacy group The David Project, which purportedly contains footage of several students describing verbal attacks and cases of in-class humiliation by pro-Palestinian professors in Columbia’s Middle East Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) department. In one of the worst cases of abuse, an Israeli student alleges that a MEALAC professor refused to answer an in-class question until the student...
...actors’ bold effervescence, both in song and in action, carries the show, infusing it with provocative verbal and kinesthetic inflection. Anonymous character JC Cassis ’06 blurts out “I voted for John Kerry” during one number. Lane D. Levine ’06 takes on the musical’s burlesque motif, drawing circles in the air with his well-toned glutes as boy-toy Arthur in “Arthur in the Afternoon...
Toward the end of the debate, Ramaswamy spurred a verbal altercation when he asked an audience member’s written question about whether the Democrats thought the 57,000 civilian casualties in Iraq were “acceptable.” The Republicans cried foul and insisted the question should have been directed at them. After a brief shouting match, both sides managed to restore order in time for closing statements...
...scenes and then we discuss," says Bacri. "And if we disagree, we have a rule about complete intellectual honesty, so we'll debate until one convinces the other. Very much like what ends up in our films." In Look at Me, no thought goes unspoken, no comment undissected. The verbal back-and-forth propels each scene - a single sentence can turn a relationship on its head, transform losers into winners, victims into fighters. Speaking to her friend Sébastien about her father, Lolita goes from pushover to pissed off in an instant. "I don't hate him," she says...
...chemical- and nuclear-weapon capability--though biological warfare no longer interested him--once sanctions were lifted. The regime had "no formal written strategy or plan" to do so, but lieutenants say they "understood" that was his goal "from their long association with Saddam and his infrequent, but firm, verbal comments to them...