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SOMEHOW, OUT OF the past weekend's flurry of verbal assaults, rude interruptions, angry personal statements, and emotional hyperbole, the audience at the MIT-Harvard sponsored Symposium on Women and Pornography managed to indulge occasionally in laughter, what some French feminists could even call "jouissance," gendered female. Politics after all, as guest speaker Catherine MacKinnon noted sarcastically, is a very sexy business...
Writers, etymologists and other devotees of verbal arcana have never been given a richer browsing ground. But while they are discovering that a blind tiger is a place to buy and drink moonshine, or that there are 176 names for dust balls under the bed, they are also bound to be awed by the dictionary's staggering scholarship. Virtually every entry is meticulously catalogued for its geographic roots, first recorded usage, evolution of meaning and the most subtle shading of sound. Pronunciation Editor James Hartman particularly prizes manniporchia, a northern Maryland word for the DTs. The dictionary's investigators traced...
...explicable or sympathetic, she is a compelling spectacle, turning heads and stomachs with her coruscating monologues. The others--her husband (Charles Dance), her bohemian pal (Tracey Ullman), her befuddled lover (Sting) and two of her husband's superiors in the diplomatic corps (John Gielgud and Ian McKellen)--have delicious verbal turns of their own. Among its other virtues, Plenty is the year's funniest film, to those with a taste for English mandarin scorn: the word unspoken, the sneer barely repressed, euphemism as an act of smart-club malice...
Stepping back from what had become a presummit public relations duel, both sides avoided public discussion of the proposal, which will officially be placed on the negotiating table in Geneva this week. Government analysts spent the weekend parsing the Gorbachev letter and Shevardnadze's verbal presentation. But it seemed likely that the scheme will envision a large swap: the Soviets would move toward the U.S. position on reducing offensive nuclear weapons if the Americans severely limited their program of ultramodern Star Wars missile defenses...
...Graduate Student Council, Women in Science, and the Radcliffe Union of Students have all formally endorsed a proposal upholding a student's right to disassociation on the grounds of moral objection to sexual harassment. The University defines such misconduct as "unwanted sexual behavior such as physical contact or verbal comments or suggestions, which adversely affects the working or learning environment of an individual...