Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Connolly got out of his verbal battle with the umpires was a quick repair job of the entire fence by an agreeable Harvard squad and coach Loyal Park (who's probably agree to anything at that point as long as they kept the two runs on the scoreboard...
...adorned in a white gown, black sunglasses and a regal red sash. Unlike The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (TIME, Dec. 31, 1973), which lasted twelve hours and centered on painterly images evolving in glacially slow motion and almost total silence, Queen Victoria consists mainly of verbal anarchy. In a typical scene, characters shoutingly reiterate the following word-sounds contrapuntally: "HAP-HATH-HAP-HAP-HATH - O.K., O.K., A-O-K, O.K., O.K. - SKY-SKY." This sort of thing is punctuated by screams of primal therapy...
...falling every year since 1962, and the new figures-based on last year's tests taken by 1 million high school students-show that the trend is continuing (TIME, Dec. 31, 1973). Over the past twelve years the average score has dropped from 478 to 440 on the verbal test and from 502 to 478 on the mathematics test. Highest possible score...
...whizzing bullets, may be verbal in the modern era, and the scores of orphans and widows may be only the one-night creations of color TV sets and Curt Gowdy, but the internecine struggle in the hollows and west into the flatlands will nonetheless maintain its fiery pitch...
...PHILADELPHIA, Melvoin's specialty is the rapid-fire repartee. Rubin and O'Donnell are a brilliant duo when let loose. And in a word-spitting duel like the Questions Game (where each must retort with a question), the verbal fireworks are dazzling. Chris Minkowski, a properly regal Claudius, looks like he's still savoring his triumph as last fall's production of Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound. The mimed deaths of the Tragedians, choreography by David Fechtor, resemble the last writhing gasps of fish drowning in air, and coordinate well with the heavy rope-netting...