Word: verbalization
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Attempts to draw too much significance from these athletes' situation is part of the play's problem. Through all the verbal jabbing, backstabbing and competition, the players, teammates for the past six years, realize that their jobs are not what they're going to miss most about being cut. Instead, not too surprisingly and too cliched, they are going to miss each other. When the moralizing commences and the banter begins to lose its freshness, sometime mid-way through the second act, the play starts to drag...
...books, exclaimed one French critic, "possess all the passionate excess of Rabelais' Gargantua, the verbal virtuosity of a Joyce, the demonic cruelty of Celine's best work." Mon dieu, who is this born-again Shakespeare? Charles Bukowski. You know, the 64-year-old Los Angeles-based laureate of American lowlife whose Henry Miller-ish paeans to booze and broads (Love Is a Dog for Hell, Notes of a Dirty Old Man) typically sell only around 5,000 copies in the U.S. In France, more than 100,000 copies of the Boho's short and tall stories have left the shelves...
...plaintive interoffice memo on Oct. 1, 1985, saying, "HELP! The seal task force is constantly being delayed by every possible means . . . The allegiance to the O-ring investigation task force is very limited to a group of engineers numbering 8-10 . . . We wish we could get action by verbal request, but such is not the case. This is a red flag...
...another government professor for sexually harassing a junior faculty member in his department--prompted the University to refine its definition of sexual harassment and to revise and publicize its procedures for handling such misconduct. The University presently defines sexual harassment as "unwanted sexual behavior such as physical contact or verbal comments or suggestions, which adversely affects the working or learning environment of an individual...
...rejected by every firm. He was stung. He saw their response as a clear example of prejudice against Italian Americans, and it confirmed his sense of himself as an outsider. He took a job instead with a firm in Brooklyn and gravitated toward trial work. He loved the verbal jousting, the sweet certainty that preparation paid...