Word: vocalisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film has a saving grace, it's Michael Caine. As Fortnum, Caine plays Plarr's antithesis--a diplomatic has-been who is vocal, inefficient, frumpy and, more often than not, drunk. Fortnum's expressiveness is near-heroic beside the doctor's iron mask, but the endearing consul can't carry the film alone. Like the proverbial tree in the forest, Fortnum's sentiments flag for want of a receiver among the other characters...
...noticed that many of the people sounding off at great length now, being very vocal about this, in many instances they don't suggest what [specific] things I could do. [Or] they suggest things that are so obvious that they were the first things we thought of and ruled out for equally obvious reasons...
King, who appeared visibly moved by the most vocal support he has received so far in this campaign, termed the rally "an incredibly beautiful sight," before calling for an end to racism and stating his support for affirmative action and Boston Jobs for Boston People, a program that would require contractors hired by Boston to employ a certain number of local residents...
...comes to pop music, the Japanese like their stars young and female. Last week the top of the pops belonged to a handful of singers - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Akina Nakamori, Naoko Kawai and Tomoyo Harada- whose claim to fame owes more to their winsome good looks than their modest vocal talent. Says Shig Fujita, an entertainment writer for the Asahi Evening News...
...Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, De Vries makes that conflict both hilarious and explicit. Tony's father debates a local dermatologist, who happens to be the town's most vocal atheist, on the subject of Christian belief. Their spirited exchange, waged before an enthralled and partisan audience of locals, is declared a draw. But the combatants have persuaded each other to switch positions. The minister resigns his post and faith, moves east and becomes a suave, voice-over pitchman in dog food TV commercials; the doctor takes up tub-thumping evangelical crusading. Late in the novel, a rematch is arranged...