Word: demeanor
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...past, anti-final club activists have drawn much needed attention to the misogyny that results from these clubs: systematic discrimination, offensive demeanor and, in the extreme, rape. the outrage is legitimate...
...modified it. Unlike Berry Gordy, the Motown Records founder who used widely appealing performers like the Supremes to facilitate soul music's crossover into the white market in the early 1960s, Simmons has built his reputation on a refusal to assimilate. He promotes artists whose speech, dress and demeanor reflect the in-your-face bravado of black urban adolescents and the rebellious fantasies of those in the suburbs. Taking direct cues from his audience, Simmons told Run-DMC to wear their dark glasses and black leather suits onstage and LL Cool J to retain his slouchy, bucket- shaped Kangol...
...lascivious, obnoxious and Machiavellian Valmont. Everything from his swaggering gait to his libidinal outbursts a delineates a distinctive Valmont. His character suffers from frustrated vanity, and he devises his own fall with unwitting irony. He disgusts the audience with his lecherousness and charms them with his seductive demeanor...
...page Army dossier contains so many blacked-out words that it's hard to glean the danger he faced. Surviving the censor's ink was his title, "Team Chief." Under "Evaluation," it was written that he "performs constantly in the highest-stress environment with clear operational judgment and demeanor . . . Especially strong in accomplishing the mission with minimal guidance and supervision . . . Continues to perform one of the most hazardous and demanding jobs in the Army...
Political analysts are in near unanimity that Kinnock will soon have to relinquish his leadership post -- perhaps as early as this week. In the meantime, Kinnock, who had struck a statesmanlike demeanor on the campaign trail, was less than gracious in defeat. "Now the Conservatives will continue with the decline," he said. "The whole country deserves better...