Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate looks like a smalltown professor, vintage 1956: the haircut is modified crew, the clothes drab and slightly ill-fitting, the rhetoric sparing and precise. The other candidate actually is a professor, but with his practiced flamboyance, a wardrobe of elegant mismatches and a manner that oscillates from pixie to pedagogue and back within a 60-second monologue, he comes across more like a ripe character actor in search of his next role. The contrast is appropriate because rarely do voters get a chance to choose between candidates for the Senate-or any other office-who differ so clearly...
...points out that he reduced property taxes five times during his eight years as mayor of Indianapolis and left office this year with a surplus of $4.5 million. Lately, Lugar, who has a stiff campaign manner, has loosened up his style, shedding his conservative business suits for bright blazers and white loafers. He has run into some flak from Common Cause for his acceptance of $10,000 in contributions from the A.M.A., twice the amount allowed one contributor by law. He claims it was legal. However, with a $500,000 budget, thousands of precinct workers, and an aura...
...lovemaking is all wrong: "He starts off adagio, adagio. Second phase, well, you might call it al legro ma non troppo and pretty nervy . . ." When she is offstage, Hubert the poseur can usually be counted on for verbal sprightliness. "What is opulence," he asks in his best Oscar Wilde manner, "but a semblance of opulence...
...only because she does not appear sharp enough to figure out that neither the picture nor her character are going anywhere while she and Trintignant argue about how to pronounce "Boston". Though somewhat slow on the uptake, Bisset is of course beautiful, as the film in typical if unsubtle manner reminds us, by flashing a bare-assed shot of Bisset once all the action is over, as if to propitiate the audience...
Overall, his impact at the Law School and on black education in general may be measured "mainly in terms of intangibles," a member of the Law School faculty said yesterday. "The morale of the whole school was deeply affected by his manner and his progress...