Word: verbalizer
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...around 1 p.m., the man approached the QuincyHouse gate on Plympton Street and launched hisnon-stop verbal barrage. The discourse touchedupon such diverse topics as "How to Cheat Your Wayto a Harvard Degree"--borrow a thesis fromWidener, steal its catalogue card, borrow(heavily...
...neighbor's child, as well as taking care of her husband, who has apparently had a stroke that has rendered him helpless. The contrast between Maika's helathy cheer and her husband's thin and trembling weakness portrays the conflict within the family more effectively than any verbal explanation of their condition...
...tape, a transcript of which was released byNASA on yesterday, offered no verbal evidence thatany crew members other than Smith knew anythingwas abnormal prior to his single exclamation 73seconds after launch--the very second that groundcontrollers lost all communication with the craft...
...others doing it. Kelly shrewdly narrows his focus to just the wrongdoers, not the colleagues who never joined -- or, in at least some cases, were not asked. Most of the locker-room dialogue is persuasive, blending easy badinage with underlying detachment. By far the most effective scenes are the verbal dances in which the players stumble into conspiracy, each looking to the other for guidance...
...excavation has provided ample proof of Kovacs' prodigious achievement. Not that all of it is funny. Much of Kovacs' comedy strikes a viewer today as rather obvious and crudely executed. Steve Allen, another pioneer of live TV comedy, was a more dexterous verbal wit; Sid Caesar a more inspired sketch comic. Kovacs' contribution lay elsewhere. No performer, for one thing, was more at ease in front of the TV camera or treated it with such relaxed irreverence. Kovacs' live shows were an engaging mix of scripted bits (with such recurring characters as the lisping poet Percy Dovetonsils) and raucous improvisation...