Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original. But it lacks Joyce's intensity; it can go no further than the flat visual presentation of events (particularly inadequate) since Joyce--almost blind--evoked such powerful non-visual imagery. A novel is better suited to internal drama than film, if only because most of our thoughts are verbal, not visual. Prose has more flexibility, too: It can freeze a moment and describe it in detail while a camera can only capture the immediacy of continuous time. The writer can add or deliberately neglect detail at just the right instant and with greater ease. In the opening scene...
...tenacious." Lawyer-Author George V. Higgins (The Friends of Eddie Coyle), who prosecuted two bank-fraud cases against defendants represented by St. Clair, recalls, "They were the most intense trials that I have ever experienced. He is a punishing adversary. His style is one of complete concentration and total verbal aggression...
...Verbal Bombshell. It soon became clear that unusual action would be needed to patch up the allies' relations. On Thursday, Kissinger unexpectedly appeared at the State Department's regular noon press briefing where he apologized for his biting comments: "I regret them, and I feel they make no great contribution to the Atlantic dialogue...
Europe's leaders scarcely had time to consider Kissinger's apology when Richard Nixon dropped another verbal bombshell on the alliance. At his Friday press conference in Chicago, the President warned Europe that "the day of the one-way street is gone." Nixon told the EEC that it must decide to work with the U.S. "on the economic and political front," or else America "will go separately." Just in case Europeans missed the point, the President observed that Congress might vote to cut U.S. troop strength in Europe unless some understanding is reached. On Saturday, Le Monde...
...presence of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the Middle East last week appeared to have regressed to the familiar old no war-no peace stalemate. Day after noisy day on the Golan Heights, Syrian and Israeli gunners fought artillery duels. In Jerusalem, Premier Golda Meir hurled a few verbal shells at both Syria and the Palestinians. In interviews with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan (see box below and on page 40), both Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Mrs. Meir displayed a measure of perhaps ritualistic truculence...