Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back in his nighttime encounters with Jody Powell and spouted the Soviet line with a certain disdain. After all, he had regularly chewed up past U.S. press secretaries: Pierre Salinger, Ron Ziegler, Ron Nessen. Powell, the Vienna (say Vye-an-uh), Ga., debater, was clearly superior. His voice and manner were more forceful, he refuted the Soviet charges with facts and a down-home touch of nastiness, zinged his adversary with some humor. The thought crossed several minds that Zamyatin, like the other Soviets, had been too long in his iron cocoon...
Firestone confirms that it is under investigation by the SEC. Says a company spokesman: "From the questions they are asking, they are trying to determine just who in management was aware, and whether we disclosed in a timely manner. We are confident that the SEC will find we disclosed properly." The unexpected resignation of Di Federico, 57, he added, "was for personal reasons...
...uncertain world of economic forecasting, where most commentary is clothed in the blue serge prose of prudence, Michael Kaye Evans, 40, is a flamboyant exception. Evans delivers his often outrageous, generally gloomy opinions with a resounding finality. His manner has made him a figure of almost constant controversy. Lyle Gramley, a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, calls Evans "the Larry Flynt of econometrics." Yet he is the darling of conservatives on Capitol Hill, where he appears often to testify...
...fetched; rather, they are subtly interwoven with "critical" points during the conversation and are sustained just enough to intensify the emotional, as well as ideological aspect of an intimate relationship. In many other sequences, the stationary shots are composed with an evident concern for pictorial arrangement executed in a manner that enhances dramatic conflict, by either equilibrium or disharmony in the distribution of white and dark areas over the screen. Often the shot is divided into two equal segments-one occupied by close-ups of the characters, the other compact with decorative objects (sculptures, pictures, ironwork and flashing neons...
...animated marionettes in an ambience of rich urban decor. Inevitably, such visual dynamism provides an appropriate frame for a casual style of acting, freed of the contrivance and pomposity prevalent in contemporary comedies. The most spontaneous actor is, of course, Woody Allen himself, noted for his extemporaneous manner of rendering lines and puns. His wit seems to be spur-of-the-moment, forged at the very instant of delivery before the camera. The effect of improvisation owes a great deal, as well, to Allen's (and Marshall Brickman's) extraordinary feeling for the vernacular. Their dramatic imagination is given expression...