Word: verbalizer
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...present. Such diverse hands as Cavett, professional Wild Man Pat McCormick and Writer-Director Marshall Brickman, who all put in typewriter-time at the Carson Stables, speak not only of his considerable editorial skills but of his ease as an employer. If Carson, on camera, suggests simultaneously a verbal glibness and an emotional reserve, that is usually considered Midwestern; it is the same reserve that is the core of his charm and longevity. His audiences derive from Carson not only a few good laughs a night (no mean average five times a week) but the cool comfort...
Carson provides nightly exhibitions of almost unrivaled technical skills, little seminars in comedy and verbal brinkmanship that can be both tutorials for the trade and, for the paying customers, a standard against which other stand-up comedy is measured. In Johnny Goes Home, Carson is shown doing something else uncharacteristic: losing his grip. Dangling from a railroad bridge as a freight rumbles above him, his arms give out and he tumbles into the water close beneath. Walking ashore, he laughs and says, "If I'd waited another five seconds I would have made it." Historians of comedy, take note...
...Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus in fact hid behind his nonverbal art. The author paraphrases Kierkegaard on Don Giovanni: "Don Juan is not someone who creates himself by thought, but someone who can only reveal himself musically, since the erotic principle by which he lives evades his consciousness or its conscious verbal expression...
...another freshman, who experienced a verbal assault, noted that "after 11 p.m. there is no one around and there are lots of little places where people can hide...
After 20 years of slipping, they rose three points overall on the 1600-pont scale, from 424 to 426 on the verbal portion and from 466 to 467 on the math...