Word: verbalizer
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...debate is more complex. McGinniss probably stepped over the ethical line in giving a verbal guarantee that his book would vindicate MacDonald. It is a cardinal rule of journalism not to promise sources that stories will be favorable, and McGinniss' assurances went far beyond simple cleverness...
That set the tone for the showdown. U.S. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, announcing that President Bush refused to intervene in the Eastern strike, could not resist a verbal shiv of his own. "Mr. Lorenzo," he said, "has obviously not got the trust and admiration of his employees." As unionists burned an effigy of the Texas Air chairman, their leaders laid ambitious plans to expand the strike through a series of secondary boycotts that would tie up commuter traffic across the country -- a nightmare that was averted when judges in several cities slapped temporary restraining orders on strikes of intercity rail...
...verbal slap in the face," Croteau says...
...apparently do not attend the College, earlier in the night had made "excessive gestures" towards an Adams House woman and engaged in a verbal exchange with another guest, said a sophomore, who asked not to be identified...
Scorsese is hardly a highly verbal filmmaker. His gift is to pack the equivalent of a thousand words of dialogue into a single elegant image. Life Lessons is about a bearish artist (Nick Nolte) whose reputation is currently bullish in chic circles but is distinctly on the decline as far as his lover assistant (Rosanna Arquette) is concerned. Both actors are excellent, as is Richard Price's script, which is taken from a passage in Dostoyevsky's life. But it is from the observation of simple things -- a slo-mo close-up of a cigarette being discarded, a brush slathering...