Word: verbalizer
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...common mistake to assume that all abuse is physical. The scars of other forms of abuse -- like unrelenting verbal cruelty -- can be just as apparent when children grow older, unloved and self-hating. "You can tell kids you love 'em," says April, a runaway in Hollywood. "But that's not the same as showing them. Broken promises is really what tears your heart apart." For April there is not much difference between insult and injury. "Beating kids will hurt kids. Sexual abuse will hurt a kid. But verbal abuse is the worst. I've had all three...
...Instead of quotas they'll use other methods ofdiscrimination like emphasizing verbal over mathscores," Igasaki said, noting that Asian Americanstend to score higher on the latter. This sort ofdiscrimination could never be discerned by areview, he said...
This minimalist approach succeeded last year in Hill's bleak staging of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, because it reflected the barrenness of Beckett's verbal landscape. But in a show about the foibles of human emotion and the intricacies of deception, more natural and sympathetic direction is required. The audience may laugh at the characters in Betrayal, but Hill ensures that we will never empathize...
...Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said in a statement yesterday that the league has appointed Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann, a former Watergate special prosecutor, to conduct an independent "fact-finding" inquiry into the alleged verbal abuse of Boston Herald sportswriter Lisa Olson in the Patriots locker room two weeks...
...crooked smile, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney possesses a tongue as sharp as his mind. Soon after he took office last year, he publicly scalded a four-star Air Force general for going behind his back to Congress. Military-service chiefs who oppose Cheney on budget cuts earn a solid verbal thump on the wrist. Last week Cheney fired the highly decorated Air Force chief, General Michael Dugan, for "poor judgment at a sensitive time" in speaking indiscreetly on secret and diplomatically touchy issues relating to the gulf crisis. Dugan was the first member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...