Word: demeanors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critic of mild demeanor (aren't we all?) sat in a screening room, sucking on a Ricola as he watched The Boxer, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Danny Flynn, a Belfast prize fighter unjustly jailed on a bombing rap, and Emily Watson as the girl he left behind. The critic dutifully tabulated each blunt plot point, each refried cliche ("I'm not a killer, Maggie, but this place makes me want to kill"). And yet, when Danny's nemesis did something monstrously rotten, the critic was so enraged by the dastardly act that he had to stop himself from spitting...
...films aren't the usual animation stories," says Leaf, who, belying her soft-spoken demeanor, also hasn't followed a typical career path...
...carries himself with professional demeanor among amateurs. And as 4-0 Harvard prepares for the meatier part of its schedule, may his inspired play signal bigger and better things for the Crimson. HARVARD, 75-59 at Lavities Pavillion Army 26 33 - 59 Harvard...
...hulking figure who wanders up-and-down the sidelines. Sometimes he yells out to the field, while at other times he is silent and stoic. There is nothing in his appearance nor in his demeanor which emits weakness aside from the crutches which hinder his motion...
...campaign of terror as the Unabomber walks to his seat. Even the prosecutors stop shuffling their papers to sneak a glance. But anyone expecting the self-confident strut of a killer who once branded his victims "dumb" and the FBI "a joke" will be disappointed. Ted Kaczynski's courtroom demeanor is almost timid. From the way he sits in his chair, hands folded, to the deferential behavior he shows his attorneys, he moves with the exaggerated politeness of a guest who doesn't quite know how to act in someone else's home...