Word: verbalizer
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When we, as readers, do not even have the factual information as a necessary starting point for rational discourse, we are vulnerable to believing propaganda and false reporting. And by participating and encouraging the verbal battle, the press is doing its part to destroy the now vital peace process. Reading The Crimson, talking with West Bank settlers and Palestinian rights activists and visiting army bases where boys barely eighteen carry M-16s, have made me less than optimistic about the chances for peace in the Middle East...
...From there, the hearings quickly degenerated into the kind of verbal volleys Republicans have been firing for nearly a year. Indignant GOPers played tapes, read documents and demanded action...
While filming a scene in which Nolte, who plays a hard-driving, glory-hunting lieutenant colonel, is chewed out by a superior over the phone (for Nolte's benefit, John Cusack improvises a verbal reaming from behind the camera), Malick's directions seem to consist solely of "Take a pause," "Look over at the river," and "Let's do another one." As the number of takes for this simple scene runs into the high teens, Nolte seems to get more and more flustered, losing concentration and blowing his lines (Cusack: "Are you incompetent, Colonel?" Nolte: "Yes I'm incompetent. What...
...think it shows an overall ambivalence towards security on campus, and getting some verbal promise from someone is not going to change anything," he said...
...with the first volume of his Historical Dictionary of American Slang (A through G). Volume II (Random House; 736 pages; $65)--beginning with H, a euphemism for hell, and ending 10,000 definitions later at the letter O with Ozzie, an Australian--once again reflects Americans' ingenious talent for verbal invention as well as Lighter's indefatigable scholarship...