Word: verbalizer
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...home sweet hell." It's Al Bundy of Married . . . With Children arriving at his doorstep, which in fact does resemble the gates to Dante's Inferno. Conversation in the Bundy family is a torrent of verbal abuse. "This is a home, not a restaurant," insists Al's wife Peg, after he demands his supper. "I know," he snaps. "If it was a restaurant, we'd have a clean bathroom...
McLaughlin's story--an "absurd situation," he terms it--exemplifies the verbal harassment some students in the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) say they have had to contend with here. From its tumultuous expulsion off campus in 1969 to last year's debate over returning the program to Harvard, ROTC has had an uneasy relationship with the University...
...outnumbered Republicans took plenty of verbal potshots from Bulger and returned volleys of their...
Readers of Martin Amis' earlier fictions -- notably Success, Money: A Suicide Note and Einstein's Monsters -- will find that he outdoes himself in London Fields. It could even be said he sometimes undoes himself, with his verbal brilliance and command of literary technique. No matter. As an uninhibited high-energy performance, as a bold conception of a world tumbling toward a loveless void, this British best seller is destined for a large and divided readership...
...night manager's job at a 7-Eleven. Moore might even pass for what he is: the novice director of a documentary film about blue- collar unemployment. So why did 2,000 folks stand in line for hours last week in Flint, Mich., to ask him questions, throw verbal brickbats or cheer him on? Why has his movie Roger & Me stoked debate that has spilled from the entertainment pages into the news columns? And why is General Motors -- still the world's largest industrial corporation -- so darned annoyed by a gadfly like Moore...