Word: verbalizer
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...does make several persuasive points. She charges that college feminists, in their zeal to raise awareness about date rape, have given new life to an old stereotype: the innocent woman who must be constantly protected from men's dangerous sexuality. Definitions of date rape, she contends, now include circumstances ("verbal coercion") that trivialize real acts of sexual violence. Regretted indiscretions of the night before, Roiphe insists, cannot become rape the morning after...
...always the wrong man. Like Sartre's No Exit, this is a story of a trio in hell. In No Exit, "hell is other people"; here, hell is being stranded with this couple playing out their sad games. She smacks him around, dances in the nude, spits back his verbal abuse, rides him like an old horse. The two must have Alex as an audience for their displays of hatred, bent lust and mutual need. When he's gone they seem dead, spent, like marionettes after the show...
...stay mentally fit. He found comfort in recollections of Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler's classic novel about a prisoner locked in solitary confinement. After a while he began to reconstruct his own life story, then slowly recite, out loud, each heavily detailed chapter. "This is the verbal autobiography of Harvey Weinstein, aged 6," he intoned as he conjured up the memories of his first-grade teacher and long- forgotten classmates. Sometimes, however, the horror of his predicament got the best of him, and he cried out for his captors to kill him and leave his body on the side...
Feelings are what Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Clinton's nominee for Surgeon General, stands accused of hurting with her controversial remarks about antiabortion activists (they have a "love affair with the fetus," and so on). Elders is, as TIME put it, "a verbal bomb thrower." The sensitivities of Roman Catholics and Fundamentalist Protestants were said to have been offended by her tart tongue. No doubt she wishes that she had bitten her tongue on an occasion or two. If that is not promotion of a stifling orthodoxy, what...
This week, when the Senate opens hearings on the Elders nomination, the rest of the U.S. will find out that the 59-year-old Arkansas public-health director is still a little different. While she has the bedside manner of the white- coated physician, she has also been a verbal bomb thrower, trying to wake up Arkansas citizenry to the health crises in teenage pregnancy and AIDS by promoting sex education, birth control and freedom of choice on abortion. Just after her appointment in 1987, Elders was asked if school-based clinics would dispense contraceptives. She replied...