Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call equipment for you," replied the tower controller at Lindbergh Field in that same business-as-usual manner. The final word from Pilot McFeron: "Roger...
White House officials, however, insisted that the minutes did not show what really went on at Cabinet sessions. Said Watson: "I wrote them in a manner to protect against leaks, to keep out all sensitive matters, political and otherwise. Given that, it's not surprising that they're boring." That said-and accepted-the minutes manage to provide unexpected glimpses of the Cabinet at work...
...manner is at once frustrating and comforting because he does have a firmly constructed approach--perhaps the solutions will come later. He has placed no time limits on how long he would like to be president, and under his guidance Yale seems to have the opportunity to get back on its feet. How Giamatti will manage to exploit his academic expertise is yet another question. He plans to return to the classroom in the near future, time permitting, but this tradeoff seems to be one of his most agonizing problems. It is not a purely selfish motivation--his students...
...William Friedkin's film of William Peter Blatty's reasonably entertaining novel is cinematic vomit--in a word, a gross-out. Or maybe two words. Friedkin, whose hit-'em-over the head style should confine him to urban crime thrillers, shoves his disgusting images into our faces in a manner reminiscent of Linda Blair shoving a crucifix into her crotch. Crunch, crunch. Blatty's novel needed: a) someone less pretentious than Blatty to write the screenplay, and b) a director with more of a sense of lyricism and wit, a modern James Whale, or a Hitchcock, or even a DePalma...
...speech to the lower house of parliament, the Shah's new Premier, Jaafar Sharif-Emami, conceded that Iran was "paying a price" for the manner in which its economic programs had been conducted. The Premier promised that the government's liberalization program, under which no fewer than 40 political parties have formed, would result in new "political freedoms and social justice." The government promised to allow the parties time to organize and campaign before next June's promised elections...