Word: verbalizer
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...Amis, 54, is one of Britain's best-known serious novelists - and thus one of the biggest targets in the literary field - and Yellow Dog is his first big novel since The Information, eight years ago. Beginning with The Rachel Papers in 1974, Amis' cold eye, slashing wit and verbal ferocity made him a literary celebrity in his own right, not just the son of old-school lion Kingsley Amis. But as any Martin Amis fan knows, the London literary world seethes with vicious jealousy, so when one of its celebs stumbles, the rest of the pack attacks. Last year...
...years before mainstream America finally took notice. The graphic-novel business is reportedly worth about $100 million a year, but it still has no honor in the country that invented it. Yet some of the most interesting, most daring, most heartbreaking art being created right now, of both the verbal and the visual varieties, is being published in graphic novels. These books take on memory, alienation, film noir, child abuse, life in postrevolutionary Iran and, of course, love, and they hit all the harder because we don't expect wisdom and truth from characters who talk in speech bubbles...
Merritt also led Lynch through a series of questions concerning the alleged witness tampering. Lynch testified that as investigators began to look into Trombly’s allegations, his partner had delivered a verbal message to him from Byrne instructing him “to say that nothing happened...
...weeks ago Undersecretary of State for Non Proliferation John Bolton issued a blistering attack on North Korea's leader, calling him a "tyrannical dictator" who has subjected his people to a "hellish nightmare." Administration officials defended Bolton's remarks even after the North Koreans responded with some vicious verbal salvos of their own and threatened to boycott the Beijing talks if Bolton was a delegate. Still, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage announced Tuesday that Bolton would not, in fact, be sent to the talks. The last thing Washington wants to do is give the notoriously fickle North Koreans...
...irritant in its diplomatic relations. The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Lorne Craner, calls Yang "one of the particular cases we now mention in all our discussions about political prisoners." But unless Washing- ton and other democratic governments are willing to back up verbal opprobrium with serious diplomatic consequences, China's leaders may never honestly face the difficult truth that Yang came home because he is a patriot...