Word: verbalizer
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...times, Parker's verbal wit is the match that lights otherwise dull embers. Measuring Niagara with a Teaspoon, benefits greatly from her title and written explication--"Georgian silver spoon drawn to the height of Niagara Falls." Likewise, Measuring Liberty with a Dollar, made of a silver dollar drawn into a wire the height of the Statue of Liberty, is not primarily a visual experience. If we didn't have Parker's clever titles and explanations, one work might easily be cast aside as a messy tangle of wire, while the other, neatly coiled, has only some nice, simple formal qualities...
...best of Parker's work, like "Room for Margins," depend on such effective combinations of the visual and the narrative aspects of her art. The most memorable have as much visual as verbal wit, and can stand alone without the extra information, the story, imparted by the caption. A visit to a firearm factory yielded two Colt 45 revolvers, arrested mid-production and polished, so that they look soft and immature, almost harmless. Visually, the pair of handguns look like two Nefertitis moving in for a kiss...
...Verbal SAT score of presidential candidate Bill Bradley, a Rhodes scholar and magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University...
...Verbal score of George W. Bush, a C student at Yale University...
...Magazine Street and Chalk Street at 6:30 p.m., his friend threw a snowball that struck a passing motor vehicle. The vehicle's driver then got out and, swearing, grabbed and pushed the woman's son. The mother came to her son's defense, and a verbal altercation with the driver ensued. The driver threatened her before leaving...