Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students also demanded a "full-scale investigation" into alleged "unfair labor practices" at the Union and other University dining halls. The list of demands said the practices include "unnecessarily harsh" and "excessive" verbal and written discipline of workers and discriminatory promotion practices based on race and nationality...
...Goldwyn used to say that "a verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on." Last week a Los Angeles jury found differently. It ruled that actress Kim Basinger (912 Weeks, Batman) had breached an oral contract when she backed out of a commitment to star in the film Boxing Helena, and ordered her to pay $8.9 million in damages to the producers, Main Line Pictures...
...consciousness was perhaps best evidenced by his solo "Last Night on Earth," which he performed at the Wang Center on Saturday. As the title suggests, the piece is largely autobiographical, or at least very personal. More performance art than traditional dance, the work was a combination of movement and verbal explanation. Anesthetically, its shock value could not be missed. Ferociously bright lights nearly blinded the audience at its commencement, and they faded revealing Jones clad only in a white chiffon miniskirt...
...like an art director's impossible dream. Yet the task turned out to be relatively easy, recalls Balog, who conducted the photo session in a Hollywood studio. Sally, who belongs to a local animal trainer, has a rudimentary understanding of human language, so she was able to follow simple verbal commands like "Sit." The problem, though, was getting her to remain still for several minutes at a time. She would squirm, twitch and monkey around with the photographic equipment. The crew used grapes, apples, carrots, raisins and even bananas as bribes to get Sally to cooperate. Thirteen hours later, Balog...
Both speakers outraged and offended many students, and unleashed floods of written and verbal protest. Fortunately, neither was prevented from speaking...