Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Corps. The buildup obviously presaged trouble in the coastal cities of Hue and Danang. But MACV asserted that it also posed a "serious threat" to U.S. troop withdrawals and that a "preemptive offensive" was planned with "limited objectives." Few reporters in Saigon doubted that the jargon was a verbal screen for a direct ARVN assault on the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...apartment redone for her cynical young lover. Guess who gets to use the bed? In another skit Caesar is a gamy garment-district mogul who sweeps Channing off the dance floor at Roseland. Since both are in their 70s, desire exceeds potency, and the two compromise on an antiquarian verbal waltz...
...verbal agreement with Brattle Films, Inc., which controls four Cambridge movie theatres, a major distributor of foreign films has promised to stop supplying movies to Harvard and M.I.T. film societies for the rest of the academic year...
...legal status of Harvey's arrangement with Janus is unclear, especially since it is a verbal rather than a written agreement. Two Law School profes-sors-one an expert in anti-trust law, the other an authority on film law-said that this might be a case of "coercion from the buyer's side" and thus in restraint of fair trade. Both said they would need more information to make a judgment...
...steam roller, drawn years before the invention of the tank but moving blindly across a dead landscape manned by a gunner and some top-hatted diplomats, popes and kings. But his most memorable images were elegies of dispossession: of that dark tract between social role and inner imagination whose verbal maps were drawn by Kubin's Middle European contemporary, Franz Kafka. The Guilt, 1902, is quintessential Kubin: a starveling figure immersed to his knees in water, bent double under the weight of a fat, disaffected-looking seal-slimy, absurd and immovable. The beast is not even malevolent enough...