Word: verbalizer
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Neruda (Philippe Noiret), the communist poet in political exile on an Italian isle, introduces the postman (Troisi) to the verbal rapture of metaphors; aids him in winning over the sultry, feral Beatrice (Maria Grazia Cucinotta); then abandons Mario to return home. But the film's true poetry is in Troisi's face--gaunt and ethereal, like that of a Jesus in a Neapolitan pageant. The audience needs no subtitles to read the feelings in this man's brave, troubled heart...
...researchers' definition of violence did, at least, avoid some of the absurdities of previous studies, in which every comic pratfall was counted. Violent acts were defined as those physical acts intended to cause harm to another; also included were verbal threats of physical harm as well as scenes showing the aftermath of violence. Thus, finding a body in a pool of blood on NYPD Blue counts as a violent act; Kramer bumping into a door on Seinfeld does not. A cartoon character whacking another with a mallet counts; but the accidental buffoonery of America's Funniest Home Videos doesn...
...issue at hand is similar to the debate regarding hate speech that raged through college campuses a few years ago, but it has undergone a technological metamorphosis. The current issue is slightly different from its recent cousin. Whereas with verbal speech, the controversy truly concerned only the given campus, Internet hate is accessible the world over. By providing access to racist and anti-Semitic web sites, universities are allowing such material to reach not only their own students but users all over the globe...
...more than just a verbal commitment, the FEC charges, especially when it came to Gingrich. In its most damaging new allegation, the FEC claims that GOPAC helped Gingrich win his narrow 1990 victory by paying the salaries of consultants like committee staff director Jeffrey Eisenach, who spent as much as two-thirds of his time on "Newt support" projects. The FEC's filing also raises questions about whether Gingrich went to bat for GOPAC benefactors--potentially explosive suggestions of quid pro quos that Democrats have vowed to make the basis of a new complaint against the Speaker before the House...
...Archive this weekend will not be easy. Over the course of five days, 70 years' worth of work--140 films by dozens of artists--will dance across the Carpenter Center screen. The reward for dipping into this impressively curated and unique retrospective is an experience which skates away from verbal description...