Word: verbalism
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Annan has also shown a tendency to assume that peace is secured by paper or verbal promises from dictators. An eye-opening example of this came in Feb. 1998, when he traveled to Baghdad following Saddam Hussein’s obstruction of U.N. weapons inspectors. Annan smoked Cuban cigars with the Iraqi tyrant, praised him as a man of “courage” and a “builder,” and cut a deal to keep the inspections going. Before leaving, the secretary-general told a reporter that Iraq had been unfairly “demonized?...
Among other highlights, "Super Unleaded" sketches a devastating portrait of dysfunctional family dynamics in just a few short pages. The unnamed teenage narrator has become the reluctant communication bridge between his non-verbal parents. That he is the child of a Korean mother and Caucasian father only adds to the story's complexity without making it strictly about cultural gulfs. On the opposite end of the comix scale is "Oliver Pikk," featuring a walking, talking skewered olive who complains about his sex life. Why doesn't he believe in aliens, for example? Because, "the thought of an entire species...
...mail, Lee also accused fellow election commission members of “severe verbal abuse” and “physical belligerence...
...Bill. The first was show, this is tell--anecdotes at 10 paces. Of course, this being a Tarantino film, the conversations are as long and lurid and finely choreographed as the martial-arts set pieces. (The auteur is a bit of a diva himself: he loves arias, visual and verbal.) So you get a lecture on the toxic properties of the black mamba snake and a disquisition on the psychological duality of Superman...
...overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time manages to restrain her verbal sweat glands and channel her energy into vigorous writing. But if you sweep away her layers of reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism. Pauline Kael...