Word: verbalizer
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...Republican denunciations of the Carter years. Reagan tarried too long on a description of the many beauties of California's coast, while setting up his ruminations on what he had once put into a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. Here he committed one of his few verbal slips, citing "the policies of weakness of the last four years," when he meant the Carter-Mondale term. Then he ran out of time, just as he was warming to an inspirational peroration. Reagan smiled good-naturedly when Moderator Edwin Newman chopped him off with half a minute...
Negative case: The debates are not really debates at all, but joint press conferences in which the candidates spout the same canned speeches that they give on the stump. They put a premium on glibness and showmanship, and greatly penalize a candidate for verbal slips or unpolished gestures, neither of which has much relevance to governing. They prevent rather than promote any real discussion of complex issues, allowing candidates to get away with simplistic and/or distorted presentations that cannot be refuted effectively in the time allowed...
...flags and floating balloons, he can mesmerize and uplift. But when he speaks extemporaneously, the effect can be more halting than inspirational. He has long been notorious for bungling facts. He often mangles syntax. Somehow, with a quip or a smile, he usually manages to fight free of his verbal tangles, leaving listeners only uneasy, not alarmed...
...Hands has turned Shakespeare's most popular comedy into a dream play with music and dance. Each line of dialogue (not just "Speak low, if you speak love") sounds like a song cue from the loveliest libretto ever written. Each move seems choreographed to the playwright's verbal arias; the actors glide across Designer Ralph Koltai's gleaming Margard floor as if they were skating on a frozen ebony pond. Through the translucent bower at stage rear we can see the sky swirling madly with birds, fireflies and what looks like a red UFO as the carping...
Last December Ronis worked with von Baeyer on 'Earth," a non-verbal evolution story which marked von Baeyer's directing debut at Harvard in "Earth," or Bacyer used the same method of turning improvisation into performance, he said...