Word: verbalism
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...Would you consider verbal and physical abuse a form of harassment?” Sara Lam, a student at the Graduate School of Education, asked the panel...
...That’s what I do,” Hendricks said of her verbal pyrotechnics. “Everyone makes fun of me…I don’t know. I’m a redhead. I need the energy, that’s what gets me going...
...history of movies in the '90s--or in any room--Weinstein looms large. Biskind portrays Miramax's Brobdingnagian bully as a movie-loving maniac prone to physical violence, verbal attacks and financial shenanigans. Those sins are usually forgiven because his little studio in Manhattan's Tribeca has backed many of the best, most original flicks in recent memory, including Pulp Fiction, The English Patient and Chicago, and he ponied up big time when MGM got cold feet about co-funding Cold Mountain...
...increasing frequency and rancor over the usual "spending" issues. He thought she was spending too much money; she thought he wasn't spending enough time with her and their two children. The counseling they tried didn't help. "It just made the situation artificial," says Suzanne. She's the verbal one; Tom, from a military family, is the strong, silent type. "So when we would argue, he gets sort of blasted out of the water by me, and he shuts down and shuts me out. It escalated to the point where he was, like, 'I'm out of here...
...second adverse ruling for the Administration, a federal appellate court ruled that detainees at Guantanamo cannot be denied access to the U.S. court system. And the Justice Department's inspector general issued a report detailing physical and verbal abuses by prison guards of immigrants rounded up after Sept. 11. Videotapes show guards at New York's Metropolitan Detention Center slamming detainees' heads into walls. Allegedly, conversations with lawyers were illegally recorded. The Justice Department is investigating the alleged abuses...