Word: verbalization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crackdown worthy of more conventional Communist capitals, Belgrade has been waging a noisy war against villains ranging from "bourgeois nationalists" and "anarcho-liberals" at home to various unnamed "Western powers" abroad. The tough verbal salvos have been backed up by a campaign aimed at administering a strong dose of party discipline to Yugoslavia's once unfettered press, its famed "market socialism," its relaxed, decentralized, federal form of government-just about everything, in short, that Tito eagerly embraced in the early 1950s when he led his vulnerable nation of 21 million on its courageous spin away from Moscow...
...WHAT REALLY makes Fogarty, and consequently the novel is the writing. Perfectly pitched to the man it describes, it matches his every antic with page after page of verbal histrionics. One imagines writing with a harmonica in his mouth and a ball horn plugged into his typewriter. The novel bounces, gyrates and bucks like another coaster car along the precarious edge of the reader's tolerance, never quite falling off. For whenever the author leans too far in the direction of obscenity-which is frequently--he bounces right back with a metaphor or reference to feed any appetite Jackie Kennedy...
...original insight concerning any one of these cultural stars or super-stars, but for the ingenious way that Trilling readjusts our view of each in the perspective of an evolving search for self, through the conceptual models of sincerity and authenticity. Both of these words, unfortunately, have drifted into verbal impotence of late. As Trilling admists, "sincerity" these days is at best found at the end of letters which are quite the opposite of sincere. And authenticity has been relegated to antique shops and little-read long-winded existentialist treatises. Trilling sets about to revitalize these words by probing their...
...water bottles that elude his grasp and ropes that foil his attempts to hang himself. The character is a kind of vaudeville Sisyphus, and one can thank Beckett for the small favor that the playlet lasts only ten minutes. Not I lasts 15. It is the seemingly final verbal spasm of a woman of 70 (Tandy) who recounts fragments of her life and concludes that even her suffering does not add up to much of anything. Only the woman's spotlighted mouth can be seen, along with a huge, silent druidic figure who flaps his arms from time...
...DEATHDANCE becomes many dances Edgar's twirling his sword and locking up heels whole his wife plays "The Entry of the Boyars", the staggering onset of his fits and above all the comic verbal dance from mockery to self-deception, stomping in the process on as many toes as possible. Under F.M. Kimball's direction, comic tension links the opposing profiles of actors or inhabits Edgar's sickly stare over the audience's heads At the beginning of each short sequence--signalled by a bell, and announced by the actors as, say, "Round Number 4: Alice Philosophizes"--the actors take...