Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, it is only through verbal chicanery and logical leaps that one can conclude that the sphere of privacy covers any private consensual act. If a woman's control over her body were paramount, then we could not explain restrictions against drug use, organ sales, prostitution and suicide...
...study compared students who use marijuana an average of 29 days per month to light smokers who use the drug one or two days a month. On tests measuring verbal and attention skills, the heavier users fared worse than the lighter users, according to a press release...
Neruda (Philippe Noiret), the communist poet in political exile on an Italian isle, introduces the postman (Troisi) to the verbal rapture of metaphors; aids him in winning over the sultry, feral Beatrice (Maria Grazia Cucinotta); then abandons Mario to return home. But the film's true poetry is in Troisi's face--gaunt and ethereal, like that of a Jesus in a Neapolitan pageant. The audience needs no subtitles to read the feelings in this man's brave, troubled heart...
...researchers' definition of violence did, at least, avoid some of the absurdities of previous studies, in which every comic pratfall was counted. Violent acts were defined as those physical acts intended to cause harm to another; also included were verbal threats of physical harm as well as scenes showing the aftermath of violence. Thus, finding a body in a pool of blood on NYPD Blue counts as a violent act; Kramer bumping into a door on Seinfeld does not. A cartoon character whacking another with a mallet counts; but the accidental buffoonery of America's Funniest Home Videos doesn...
...issue at hand is similar to the debate regarding hate speech that raged through college campuses a few years ago, but it has undergone a technological metamorphosis. The current issue is slightly different from its recent cousin. Whereas with verbal speech, the controversy truly concerned only the given campus, Internet hate is accessible the world over. By providing access to racist and anti-Semitic web sites, universities are allowing such material to reach not only their own students but users all over the globe...