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...delved into concentration handbooks to find the top three wordiest titles in Harvard’s academy (word-count in parentheses...

Author: By Nicola C. Perlman, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: By Any Other Name | 2/8/2006 | See Source »

...hospitalized writer, has begun a six-week run in Manhattan's Public Theater movie house. When this 6-hr. 42-min. serial was broadcast on PBS earlier this year, it attracted a rabid cult following, and New York Times film critic Vincent Canby called it "one of the wittiest, wordiest, singingest-dancingest, most ambitious, freshest, most serious, least solemn movies of the year." Now Detective, handsomely directed by Jon Amiel, is on the big screen where it belongs -- and where it looks marvelous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Notes From The Singing Detective | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...latest wordiest woman to break loose and bring out the banner is Erica Jong--poet (Fruits and Vegetables, Half Lives), New Yorker (she lives on the same Manhattan block where she grew up), middle class, Jewish. Erica Jong has written a medley of a book, something of a cross between a True Confessions of a Feminist--How Tough it Is and a Portnoy's Complaint. The book is probably meant to be the new monument to the movement. It's got everything: woman as Oedipus, masochist, narcissist, feminist; woman as hostage of her fears, her fantasies, her false definitions; woman...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Love and Loathing | 1/16/1974 | See Source »

...letter states, "the author [of the book] fills 741 pages with what has to be one of the wordiest, most inefficient logical texts around...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: They Burned Their Books At B-School | 2/18/1970 | See Source »

...Like a Cow?" For Indian university students, Expressionist Lerner is a new breed of cat. He is at home in one sense: "This is without question the wordiest, talkingest civilization I have ever encountered." But the talk of smugly anti-materialist intellectuals is no match for blitz-tongued Professor Lerner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Visiting Professor | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

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