Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just begun work on the ice rink, and it's a little bit frightening seeing all those holes blown in the walls," Reardon said. "But we'll rebuild it in a manner that won't remind us of what we had there. Maybe the heat will even work...
Turbaned, gray-bearded and bespectacled Ayatullah Sharietmadari, 76, looks like anything but a revolutionary. He has a kindly, gentle manner. A revered scholar, he spends most of his days sitting on the floor of his bone-bare home in Qum, discussing the subtleties of Islamic thought with theological students who come to him from all over the Muslim world. His name is less a symbol of political resistance than that of Ayatullah Khomeini, 80, who has been in exile since 1963 and now lives in Iraq. But among those mullahs still inside Iran, Sharietmadari is the acknowledged leader...
Only in the somber final chapters, through Gethsemane and the Crucifixion, does McCowen abandon these shadings for an almost severely straightforward manner. With a sure instinct, he realizes that here a minimum of effects will achieve the greatest effect...
...been made of John Paul's double choice. Last week in Rome still more was being said on the subject. Remarked Belgium's Cardinal Suenens: "People will ask, 'Is he John or is he Paul?' He will be both in his own way. His manner is more John's, but it is like mixing oxygen and hydrogen - you get water, two different elements producing a third substance...
...show-biz types remain ineffectual to the end, Mikhalkov refuses to poke fun at them. More often he is touched by their plight-especially that of Olga, the movie troupe's star actress. Olga barrels through real-life matters of love, death and conscience in the same florid manner as in her on-screen roles, yet she is more tragic than foolish. As played by Yelena Solovey, an actress of impressive range, this heroine's helpless indecisiveness sometimes achieves Chekhovian dimensions...