Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to reconcile this man with the bright, tangible, often hilarious images that play out their variations in the visual and verbal puns of Grass snovels. The adventures of little Oskar with his drum were told from the caricaturing perspectives of memory and the madhouse. They are rendered as sharply as the figure of Oskar which Grass himself drew for the book's cover. Oskar has a style and a perspective that delicately guide the telling of his adventures through the psychological minefield which the war had left. Lingering guilt--for Grass as for most post-war German writers--infects...
...talking to his agent, occasionally reading a magazine, looking at her backward through a mirror or milking a cow, "Bobby Higgs" is handily beating an irate "Billie Jean Margret." Until she starts doing bumps and grinds, at which point he strips down to star-spangled shorts and starts a verbal rally. "I've a better forehand, backhand and much prettier legs," Higgs boasts. "Are those your legs?" lobs Billie Jean Margret. "I thought they were two obsolete road maps. I dig antiques." Smash. Game. Show...
...Verbal Abuse. Aaron then took his first plane ride−to join the Braves' farm team in Eau Claire, Wis., where he hit .336 and was named rookie of the year. Next season he moved up to Jacksonville and led the Sally League in everything but hot-dog sales. He was named the league's most valuable player, and he also committed more errors than any other second baseman. It was then that the Braves decided to put him in the outfield. The first black to play in the Sally League, Aaron could not eat or stay...
...General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada. Were it not for his dismal record as a capricious dictator-in addition to expelling 42,000 noncitizen Asians from Uganda, he has crippled the country's economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that has prompted President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia to call Amin "a madman" and "a buffoon...
...elevator to (a) find out if there is anyone in it, (b) find out if they are all right, (c) assure them that the problem has been reported and help is on the way, or (d), incredibly, as would have been sufficient in my case, to relay simple verbal instructions...