Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Varney, however, has been catching more than pitched baseballs recently. As the White Sox player representative he's had to handle the verbal abuse from the owners this spring, which has been almost as tough as Wilbur Wood's knuckleballs...
Later Montgomery admitted that he made "a bad mistake at Arnhem." At the time, however, he blamed the disaster on Eisenhower, charging that the American commander had failed to provide Monty's forces with enough matériel. Indeed, throughout the war Montgomery fought an acrimonious verbal battle against overall American command of the Allied armies. This war within a war became so heated that at one point Eisenhower threatened to force Montgomery's removal. Said Monty later: "Ike had simply no experience for the job. As a field commander he was very...
Cynthia Karslake (Pamela Lewis) and Vida Phillimore (Barbara Reid) are the gay divorcees. Cynthia has become engaged to the ex-Mr. Phillimore (Kelly Fitzpatrick), and Vida is on the prowl for the ex-Mr. Karslake (Steven Ryan). What ensues is a flirtatious game of verbal Ping Pong and musical beds. The Asolo company is at its stylish best in The New York Idea, but perhaps an extra bow should go to Pamela Lewis as a sportive Cressida of the drawing room and the racing paddock...
...against another moderate-Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, who is the hero of many Laborites disillusioned with old-style politics. Less likely is Employment Secretary Michael Foot, a stalwart of Labor's left wing. The chances of Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, another moderate, were damaged by his verbal abuse of the leftists during a recent parliamentary debate. Two others not given much chance to survive: Environment Secretary Anthony Crosland, who is not well known among British voters, and Energy Secretary Anthony Wedgwood Benn, the extreme left apostate peer who has long been a burr to Labor moderates, notably...
...where Redford ordered it played down in favor of showing their procedures) but through fleeting exchanges of glances and gestures caught, as it were, out of the corner of an alert camera's eye. Even so, the failure to explore their relationship with more fully dramatized incidents, good sharp verbal exchanges, is a major flaw, giving the picture a certain coldness at its center...