Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original Nicholas, Roger Rees, better suggested the character's boundless disillusionment. As Nicholas' battered Dotheboys friend Smike, David Threlfall was recognizably a victim of cerebral palsy, lame and inarticulate, whose great soul struggled to overcome his infirmities. His successor, John Lynch, skitters and jibbers in an otherworldly fashion that never resembles any sympathy-evoking affliction...
...that Conable's presence may bestow, the World Bank's new priorities involve undeniable risks. One threat is to the benign image of the bank. By tying loans to policy improvements, the World Bank will almost inevitably be tarred in the domestic debates of debtor nations. In just that fashion, the IMF has now become one of the prime bogeymen of Third World politics because of its program of enforced austerity. Warns James Conrow, a Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary: "The World Bank is going to get hit with charges of political insensitivity, just like...
...lavishly praised new British film, proves you don't have to be in Hollywood to go Hollywood. It begins with a powerful perception: when a man looks at a woman, he sees the fiction he has created of her, and out of this visionary myopia, this need to fashion a Galatea or a Bride of Frankenstein, come love, lust, violence and art. Simone (Cathy Tyson), a chic London call girl, understands this impulse in men and knows how to indulge it to her profit. Well, it's a living. But to George (Bob Hoskins), assigned by a mob boss...
Prince is all over this film, running around in clothes that are somewhere between 13th century Paris fashion and New York new wave chic. Prince is lewd, rude and constantly coy with the audience and the camera...
...entirely new. The old handle had corroded badly, and the flame had been replaced in 1916 by a leaky, kitschy amber-glass contraption. (It is now on display in the new granite entrance lobby, designed by the firm of Swanke Hayden Connell.) Appropriately, twelve French artisans were imported to fashion a new torch. They needed a year to make a plywood mold, take a plaster cast of the wooden form, make a metal mold over which reinforcing concrete was poured, and finally fashion the repousse copper flame itself--then cover it in nearly a pound of 24-karat gold leaf...