Word: verbalization
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...scenes take place just before a character's emotional outburst or cut in just after; few actually reveal what's going on inside the character's head. Nelligan consistently underplays her anger and terror, adeptly portraying a woman who bottles everything up. But when she cracks, in a brutal verbal battle with her husband (David Dukes) in a restaurant. Jaffe seems to avert the camera, weakening the scene's impact...
...extensive reform of Harvard's undergraduate program in a generation. After the Core won Faculty approval on May 2, 1978, by a vote of 182-65, Class Day Speaker Rodney Dangerfield declared, "Believe me, the Core Curriculum is nothing compared to my mother-in-law." But most of the verbal theatrics came from Faculty members, who went through three long sessions and numerous proposed amendments before agreeing on the Core as we know it today...
...statistics are startling. They seem to indicate a correlation between socio-economic status and SAT scores, which would account for the huge racial discrepancies that exist. According to the College Board, the mean score for whites taking the SAT in 1981 was 442 Verbal, 483 Math. Comparable figures for Blacks were 332 and 362. One Black college president estimated last week that 90 percent of the students in predominantly Black schools would fail to meet the NCAA requirement...
...continued its efforts to develop nuclear weapons for nuclear energy and enriching facilities. Instead of recognizing the threat such a policy poses to American efforts to check nuclear proliferation, the Administration has reduced the complex nuclear question to a deceptively simple black and white one. Referring to Zia's verbal denial of interest in developing his country's nuclear weapons capability, one Administration official announced. "We accept that the President of Pakistan is telling us the truth...
...then the verbal volley suddenly stopped. In a warm, conciliatory speech before the assembled businessmen at a Kremlin dinner, Premier Tikhonov called for "normal and, even better, friendly relations" between the two countries. At the end of Tikhonov's talk, Hartman told the Premier, "Now that's what I call a good speech." Tikhonov smiled faintly...