Word: verbalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-versed in women's literature, and well aware of the sundry contributions they've made outside the literary arts. The queen went so far as to recommend the memorization of lists of women writers, so that when called upon to defend the gender, every woman would have verbal ammunition at the tongue...
...second act the verbal fencing of the prosecutor (George Dzundza) and the defense attorney (Paul Collins) markedly steps up the dramatic tempo...
...Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler but to the fiction of the '60s (including his own Little Big Man), written before black humor had been eclipsed by black studies. The convoluted and brazenly preposterous plot of Who Is Teddy Villanova? is simply Berger's excuse to practice verbal gunplay with a license to kill...
Land and power. But is that all? "You think I'm motivated by a love of real estate?" Queen Eleanor demands. All this verbal carnage must have deeper roots. Like light glinting off the edge of a steel knife, appearances in The Lion in Winter are blinding. The viciousness and deceit, the shell of anger and the hollowness of despair are masks the royal family wear to cloak the more profound hurt of rejection. If they cannot have love, Henry, Eleanor and their three squabbling sons will have hatred--not merely hatred, but complete and utter decimation of their victims...
...movement of The Lion in Winter, through increasing verbal violence, is towards the temporary stripping away of these masks, the revelation of the terrible hungers which move these men and women to destruction. Each character both resists and realizes his own identity through acting: dissimulation is the armor of internecine struggle, but after a while the masks become frozen in place, forever blocking out the vestiges of humanity underneath. Lies are stacked so thick that appearance and reality are confounded, and an anguished Queen cries out: "Scenes. I can't touch my sons except in scenes...