Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scenes that are at once profound yet understated in presentation, is sometimes long-winded. In Face to Face, Bergman's newest film, the poigancy of the best scenes is undercut by insistence on spelling out his message over and over. In this case, the overkill is not so much verbal as structural; the entire conception of the film is flawed. In Scenes from a Marriage, one overlooks the occasional awkward moments because the core of the film is sound. Face to Face is a disappointment, representing a regression in Bergman's work...
...third-year employee, Shaeffer said, Glass has a right to three weeks of sick leave. "For a few unannounced absences, most workers would only get a verbal warning; others, like Glass, get suspended," he said...
...root of the problem is a question of semantics. Friedrich doesn't want to be tied down to limiting definitions of madness--he seeks an "overview" of some sort--so he tosses out a few words like "crazy" and "insane" and leaves it to us to sort out his verbal juggling. His explanation of this is a kind of catch-all empiricism, with a few arbitrary criteria tacked...
Contrary to the national trend, the average SAT scores of the students admitted to the Class of '80 are substantially high than last year's, with both the verbal and math averages of both men and women rising...
Although the admissions office refuses to disclose actual scores, the average verbal score this year rose 16 points, and the average math score increased...