Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finally concedes to bring in Sarandon as the reformed-alcoholic/renegade lawyer, Reggie Love. In her strong portrayal, Sarandon turns a moderately interesting part into "The Client"'s highlight performance, occasional showing the impressive depth she captured in "Thelma and Louise." Had Schumacher fully exploited Sarandon's hard-ball verbal confrontations, "The Client" might have succeed ed as a fast-paced courtroom drama; unfortunately, Schumacher fails to commit to the dynamic court plot, preferring to interstice the Sway family drama with a few dismally unoriginal mob scenes...
...when public literacy began to flower, that notions about the language started to change. The criminal classes and otherwise illiterate people evolved their own argot to serve as both a private code and a subversive nose-thumbing at the Establishment, and it was to guard against this verbal pollution that writers and critics like Johnson tried to formulate proscriptions aimed at purifying "the King's English...
Davis charged Gregoire with verbal harassmentand recommended Ad Board action against him afterGregoire left a "disturbing telephone message" onher answering machine...
Mark Ehrlich, the Local 40 Manager, said thathe and the union originally opposed the 121A deal.He said he changed his mind when he, speaking forthe union, reached a verbal agreement withMarshall Contractors that only union labor wouldbe hired...
...female student at a Tokyo high school run by Chongryun, a North Korean residents' association, was riding home when a young man tried to push her off her bicycle. The assailant then slashed her school uniform with a pair of scissors. That assault was one of more than 120 verbal or physical attacks reported in Japan by Chongryun since April. Though Japanese police put the total much lower, the issue has alarmed Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata, who condemned the incidents as "intolerable." Said a 78-year- old Korean woman who has lived in Japan for more than 70 years: "These...