Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight-month campaign, Ronald Reagan was very much the way he was at the beginning: the reluctant politician whose words were fiercer than his manner. Win or lose, his candidacy has been extraordinary. He was seen by many as shallow and simplistic and even dangerous. All but a handful of Senators and Congressmen shunned him. He was opposed by nearly every state organization. He had practically no editorial support...
...pleasures as well. For example, and not a moment too soon, Josey allies himself with Chief Dan George, playing a wise and humorous old Indian, much the way he did in Little Big Man. Then, too, Eastwood as a director manages his action sequences in a no-nonsense manner. He gets to the heart of the matter briskly, orchestrates his confrontations intelligently and gets off without lingering unduly over the resultant ugliness...
This directorial style seems to spring naturally from the man, assuming that Eastwood's screen character, in its mature, or post-spaghetti, formulation is a true reflection of his sensibility. The flat, quiet voice, the understated grace of his movements, the sweet almost boyish manner, contrasting so curiously with the violent deeds he performs, have a remarkable way of gaining sympathetic interest not so much through command as through insinuation. In a western, where spacious landscapes and historical distance seem to soften the impact of his brutal methods of problem solving, Eastwood is not simply a symbol...
There are still many who believe man was placed on earth in an orderly manner and with a definite purpose...
Delivered in the soft and soothing Carter manner, the speech contained nothing of substance that he had not said before, but the wording was more emphatic and the setting, of course, national. Thus he struck many as a bit further to the left than he had been, though he is still some way from the party's McGovern wing. He promised the poor that he would seek jobs for "anyone able to work"?a traditional enough Democratic pledge. Carter also sounded several populist notes that jolted many voters and undoubtedly will change their perceptions of him. He spoke...