Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Readers of Martin Amis' earlier fictions -- notably Success, Money: A Suicide Note and Einstein's Monsters -- will find that he outdoes himself in London Fields. It could even be said he sometimes undoes himself, with his verbal brilliance and command of literary technique. No matter. As an uninhibited high-energy performance, as a bold conception of a world tumbling toward a loveless void, this British best seller is destined for a large and divided readership...
...night manager's job at a 7-Eleven. Moore might even pass for what he is: the novice director of a documentary film about blue- collar unemployment. So why did 2,000 folks stand in line for hours last week in Flint, Mich., to ask him questions, throw verbal brickbats or cheer him on? Why has his movie Roger & Me stoked debate that has spilled from the entertainment pages into the news columns? And why is General Motors -- still the world's largest industrial corporation -- so darned annoyed by a gadfly like Moore...
...vogue. Incidents of racial violence on college campuses--physical violence--have risen sharply in the 1980s. It is in reaction to the increase in violent acts that college administrations are passing the codes. The intent is to deter some of the violence by cutting it off at its source: verbal discriminatory harassment that aims to disrupt rather than contribute to the educational environment...
...recommend learning to speak, read and comprehend this esoteric language. On one hand, your actual resume may improve as your vocabulary soars. And even if your resume gets worse, you will ace the verbal portion of the GRE's, go to grad school and not have to worry about employment in the real world for dozens of years...
...work I do takes on a tremendously individual tone, nonclassifiable as it is, because of my interest in things of no great popular interest," says Parks, sounding out and savoring each word as if he were sizing it for a verbal nutcracker. "This," he adds, "has meant commercial embarrassment to me." Tokyo Rose is only his fifth album since Song Cycle so, clearly, Parks is not likely to give Billy Joel a run for the heavy money; but the album is both witty and topical enough to tempt the wide audience that has so far eluded...