Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member of a flight crew, released him on $5,000 bail, and ordered him to stay in Denver. Police may now regret that decision. Upon his release, the grounded writer ran straight into a minor altercation at a coffee shop, then was arrested again for directing "filthy language and verbal abuse" at an escort-service receptionist. If Wexler ever gets out of Denver, it just may be on foot...
...attempt to restore the meaning to words, to prove that "good prose is like a window pane." "One ought to recognize," he wrote, "that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal...
...than twelve Arab leaders had told him that Israel's borders would be respected. "I'd hate to see us blow the present opportunity to move forward," he argued. "Both sides now must prevail in moderation." Chicago's main Jewish newspaper The Sentinel criticized local Jewish leaders for their "verbal lynching" of Percy in "absolute white-hot anger" and warned that eventually Percy's suggestions "would become a fact...
...heading Union at its pinnacle of influence. He continued to be active in retirement until he suffered a stroke five years ago. Thereafter he had little pain and could walk with a cane, but his speech was largely incomprehensible-a severe frustration for a man who had had great verbal skill. Although his wife had undergone two hip operations and suffered from arthritis, she was able to take a trip to Britain a month before her death. The Van Dusen pact, in other words, was not made under the extreme conditions of terminal illness that make many people sympathetic...
...LILY" DOESN'T have the same kind of verbal or poetic content Dylan's earlier lyrical marathons did. It uses short words to tell a story of jealousy, revenge, robbery and murder in the Old West. But it only tells us so much; most of the "plot" is missing or only present obliquely. We never find out who the Jack of Hearts is, or what happens to him when it's all over. You feel the song could be twenty times as long: there's room for that much more detail. What Dylan has included is just a slice...