Word: verbalization
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...senses lives up to its classification--one crucial ingredient is missing dialogue. Admittedly, this concept is hardly novel, and from an experimental point of view, can be highly appealing. However, such a striking departure from cinematic norms unavoidably poses certain problems. For one, since most audiences are accustomed to verbal interaction, the film demands its viewers display a heightened level of attention and sensitivity. More importantly, to compensate for the absence of dialogue, both case and director must maintain a continuous level of intensity and variety--a level which, in this film, is often inadequate to keep the audience captivated...
...that, when Mondale was on the high road, he began to lose, and badly. Taking the offensive helps Mondale conceal a fundamental weakness in his campaign: to many voters, the old-line Democratic Party that he stands for has no driving theme. At the same time, Mondale's verbal jabs all but drowned out Hart's attempts to explain his new ideas, which he must do to broaden his support...
...Curtin, Allie is the kind of roommate who makes meatloaf while wearing 5 pearls. Kate, a low-key tomboy, tries to unstarch Allie by taking her camping: "Come on, I'll teach you to make a fire by rubbing two credit cards to gether." Both women are ruthlessly verbal and seem actually to have read books. Although there is nothing overtly urban about the show, the clipped backchat makes it the most cosmopolitan of them all and in fact the only one that is entirely filmed in Manhattan...
...avenged the humiliations by choosing targets who resembled his dark-haired mother, sometimes jamming a gloved hand far down their throats. The brutal attacks were accompanied by obscene verbal abuse, threats of death and curiously polite asides. After the rape of "Sunshine" Shelly Monahan, a popular Spokane disc jockey, Coe asked the battered woman in executive tones, "How do you plan to further your radio career...
Although the three long essays were stuffier than the Kinsley days, they were very well-written and boasted the by-lines of such prominent literary figtures as V.S. Naipaul, John Updike '54, and Joseph Epstein. Epstein's article on the status of intellectuals in America. "The Rise of the Verbal Class," was a perfect example of the sharp-eyed, reflective, faintly self-indulgent prose which is the pride of the American middle-brow magazine...