Word: verbally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work was often likened to Samuel Beckett's. In The Chairs, for example, an old couple at a lighthouse fill a room with chairs to prepare for an orator who turns out to speak only by growling. Most of Ionesco's works were funnier than Beckett's, more verbal, richer in farcical action and far less despairing. In Soprano, mock-philosophical discussion shaded into nonsense. The Lesson, a portrait of a megalomaniacal teacher, reflected dark satire of the powerful. Rhinoceros blended those themes with a manic physical portrait of a city where everyone turns into a rampaging beast. This eccentric...
...Such verbal flexibility has served him and his cause well. But his efforts to make himself all things to all people leave many wondering just where Gerry Adams really stands when it comes to the hard job of making peace. His calculated ambiguity could prove as damaging to hopes of progress as the mixed message of the unexploded shells at Heathrow...
...morning. He serves the toasted bagels. The couple read the New York Times and the two Houston newspapers, sample the world and local TV headlines. Then he heads for the third floor for half an hour on the NordicTrack (jogging is out because of a lame hip) and a verbal massage from his friend Rush Limbaugh over the wide screen. In the shower he takes down an old-fashioned shaving brush and mug and lathers up. The equipment "tells you something," he says. But he shaves in the shower with a modern razor...
...Makes use of words or non-verbal symbols that are commonly understood to convey direct, visceral hatred or contempt for human beings on the basis of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or national origin...
With the brothers' appearance, the dialogue finally gains energy, and the genuine verbal fireworks restore some sense that these are complex characters that we should care about, and not merely cartoons. Yet, with the exit of the men, the women are once again stranded in Toon Town...