Word: verbalization
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...woman reaches menopause, it's the end of romance," announced Actress Gloria Swanson, 77. "But it's really the beginning of everything because there's no worry about whether to get pregnant or not. Women find a sense of freedom and abandonment." Swanson's verbal abandon came during a taping of TV's syndicated Good Day show. The unsilent screen star discussed her taste in men ("broad shoulders and narrow hips") and her recently acquired sixth husband, Author William Dufty, 60. "Biologically, a woman is younger and lives longer...
...being clever. She complains that the "tempo" of her husband's lovemaking is all wrong: "He starts off adagio, adagio. Second phase, well, you might call it al legro ma non troppo and pretty nervy . . ." When she is offstage, Hubert the poseur can usually be counted on for verbal sprightliness. "What is opulence," he asks in his best Oscar Wilde manner, "but a semblance of opulence...
Well, the Yankees finally did it. The Bombers bought the pennant. And now we are going to be subjected to the biggest verbal onslaught about the New York Yankees dynasty since the one-year Knicks dynasty...
McCarthy condemns Celine for his political pamphleteering and admires the verbal and thematic craftsmanship of the novels. Yet he refuses to separate the two genres and argues clearly and ingeniously the case for a stylistic and philosocphical continuity between them. Obviously his admiration for Celine the literary craftsman predominates and allows him to take this compromise tack. And, as he himself concedes, distance from the horrors of the '40s makes it easier to examine Celine's role in them calmly...
...tensions elsewhere between blacks and whites. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the grand old man of African liberation, has kept Kenya out of the Rhodesian confrontation, perhaps because of the frustration he experienced while trying to mediate the Angolan civil war last year. Uganda plays a noisy but purely verbal role in the southern Africa drama. Uganda's dictator Idi Amin Dada regularly threatens to dispatch a "suicide battalion" to Rhodesia or South Africa; so far, however, Amin has limited the Libyan pilots who fly his Soviet-supplied MIGs to making practice bombing runs on an island in Lake...