Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...achieve, he said, een loechte maniere, "an airy style." In the process, writes Jeffrey M. Muller in the catalog, he "intentionally formed a style representative of grace." Grace meant facility, apparent ease, but in no superficial way: a style analogous to the poise and manners of the true gentleman, a conception of human character that was forming at the Stuart court even as he worked there and was thought to radiate from the person of the King. Let the French have their Roi Soleil, a periwigged divinity; Van Dyck would give the court an iconography of kingship that...
...bitter setbacks (the city council rejected a group of her nominees for assistant chiefs -- two white males and a Hispanic woman). Alfred Calloway, a black councilman who opposed Watson's choices, stresses that little of the opposition was directed at her personally. "There's still an old Southern gentleman sort of thing here," he says. "They might be giving her more trouble if she weren't pregnant...
...they were Noel Coward lovers gone to hell in a Lamborghini. Close carries herself with the cool, pathetic majesty of the prematurely doomed. She limps swankily, dines on sundaes and cigarettes, treats Claus as if "a male's place is in the deck chair." Irons wears a kept gentleman's tight smile and gracefully calibrates every gesture, his hand describing Palmer method circles in the air as he speaks in a voice mellowed in good schools and fine port. Perhaps there is only a pretense of loving, but pretense is everything. As they argue in bed one night, Claus covers...
...Governor is either too much of a gentleman or too cagey to say precisely why he does not want Griffiths on his ticket. He did not cite her age and said only that he felt that dropping her was in the best interests of the state...
...Shearson Lehman Hutton, recalls that Souter belonged to a group that would return so late to their rooms after visiting the local pubs that they would have to climb a ladder to get over the locked gates. Back at Harvard Law School, Souter played the role of courtly gentleman, wearing a three-piece suit to parties and telling stories in his strong New England accent. Says Levine: "No one I've ever met is more fun at a party; he has that British satirical sense of humor, does wonderful impressions." That hardly qualifies him as a party animal...