Word: verbalism
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Perhaps the simplest way to gauge the nature of the current relationship between the worlds of film and politics is with an easy verbal test: Ask someone on the street to name the White House Chief of Staff. When the question proves too challenging, ask the same person to name a flabby, liberal documentary filmmaker...
Pring-Wilson fatally stabbed Colono in the early morning hours of April 12, 2003 following a verbal altercation outside of a Cambridge pizza parlor...
Fasten Your Seat Belts Few industrial rivalries are as intense and bitter as the transatlantic, multibillion-dollar dogfight between U.S. airplanemaker Boeing and its France-based nemesis, Airbus. Besides the verbal vitriol the companies consistently exchange - Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard recently accused Boeing of conducting a "campaign of untruths" - governments on both sides of the Atlantic have occasionally pushed the boundaries of diplomacy in trying to promote their respective national champions. Skyrocketing fuel prices and cut-back purchase plans have made the battle fiercer than ever, and last week a full-scale trade donnybrook erupted. Fulfilling a campaign...
...avoid any potential confusion, I will make explicit what my intentions are not: to mock George Bush’s capacity for verbalizing coherent thoughts. I promise I have grown out of that. Yes, there was a time when I considered myself supremely cool for owning the book Is Our Children Learning?, when “subliminable” and “wings take dream” made for a satisfactory criticism of our alleged president. Not anymore. These days, I will be the first to defend George Bush’s command of rhetoric and verbal manipulation...
...Bush is the rising star of verbal deceit, then Dick Cheney is already a formidable maestro of manipulation. He has recently made it clear that putting anyone but Bush in the Oval Office is an open invitation for terrorism: “If we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit again and we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States,” said Cheney. The implication, of course, is not only that Kerry is a national safety hazard...