Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ingratiatingly plastic manner with self-effacing cleverness. His line readings are fresh and unpredictable--never milking a joke for a second longer than it deserves--and though he always seems to be dropping his props, he moves with authority. Hard to believe, but Nolan has the intelligence and vocal flexibility to be a major comic actor...
...weight room, sees a lot during his shifts in the morning and in the afternoons. Everyone has a different technique when it comes to pumping iron, he notes. "One girl squeals a lot--she sounds like a dying pig," he says. "A lot of the guys are pretty vocal, too," he laughingly adds.... Among the professors who are often seen perfecting their bicep and tricep curls are JAMES Q. WILSON, ROBERT KLITGAARD and RICHARD HERRNSTEIN. Where's HUGH FLICK this year...
...breakthrough occurred at the beginning of the week with the defection of one of the sale's most vocal opponents, Republican Roger Jepsen of Iowa, a New Right conservative who had cited biblical arguments on Israel's behalf. "This sale must be stopped," he told a cheering audience of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in May. The White House knew that he was weakening, and turned up the heat. Reagan reminded Jepsen that he had personally helped him win his seat in 1978. But the President also sent him to the funeral of Israel's Moshe...
Brutus was born in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, but spent most of his life in South Africa. He fears his life will be in danger if he returns to Zimbabwe because he was a vocal critic of white-minority rule there and in South Africa, he said, adding that he left Zimbabwe in 1966 on the threat of imprisonment...
After the Sandinista regime took power in Nicaragua 27 months ago, two symbols showed that pluralism and democracy could somehow coexist with a leftist revolution. One was the fiercely independent newspaper La Prensa, which has become an increasingly vocal critic of the nine-man Sandinista directorate. The other was the Superior Council of Private Enterprise, known by its Spanish acronym COSEP, a politically powerful association representing the country's embattled private business sector. Earlier this month the Sandinista government threatened to close down La Prensa. Last week the Sandinistas moved against COSEP. After publicly accusing the government of egregious...