Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps it's too early to tell, but don't expect Peter Raymond to have the same problems. He has an easy manner and a quick, good-natured, if sometimes sarcastic, wit He respects his rowers, attributing the success of past Harvard crews to the fact that Harvard students are "special people." He says, "They come to Harvard with definite goals...
...lines go past as pure melody, as pure horn playing." Ray Charles can sing anything but opera: "The sound of his pinewoods voice tearing along over violins and a choir is one of the wonders of music." Cabaret Singer Blossom Dearie, a honey-blond with a "boxed and beribboned" manner, offers a tiny sound that "without a microphone, would not reach the second floor of a doll house. But it is a perfect voice . . . occasionally embellished by a tissue-paper vibrato...
Three hundred years ago, Moliere wrote a comedy about a man named Alceste who abhorred insincerity. The Misanthrope chronicles Alceste's refusal to lie, flatter, praise or soothe in the manner of polite society. The Misanthrope, now playing at Lehman Hall, is unsatisfying theater...
...accompanied by doltish dialogue, and they are staged with an amateurishness that would get them hooted off the screen in any decently managed hard-core house. And, though the women are not required to expose much of themselves, what they do reveal is photographed in a most unappealing manner. What's worse, the Hungarian revolution of 1956 is gratuitously hauled into the picture to give spurious significance to one of the hero's adventures. This trivialization of real tragedy seems the only truly pornographic thing about the movie, proof that it does not have even the courage...
...Educational Television, the fledgling system staggered as it grew. Almost two years ago, the doctors decided the system needed a checkup. The results of that long-overdue examination--labelled A Public Trust--are not encouraging. Carnegie II, as it has been called, would never win any awards for bedside manner. Its conclusions are brutally frank...