Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urging the acceptance of Allin's resignation offer. Perhaps mindful that opponents are ready to walk out and women are not, the bishops took a tolerant view of the dissidents. They passed a freedom-of-conscience clause specifying that no one should be "coerced or penalized in any manner" for refusing to recognize women priests. In a separate statement, they gave the same freedom to Allin, who indicated that he would not personally ordain a woman priest or receive Communion from...
...unusual touch in Auerbach's rather lengthy autobiography is that it does not seem to be completely ghost-written, as is the manner of most sports books. Instead. each chapter contains an historical text by Joe Fitzgerald, a longtime Boston sport-writer including comments about Red from players, relatives, friends and enemies (including the references he terrorized for years), and a few pages of italicized comments from Red himself, which read like transcribed tapes. The result is, surprisingly enough, a lot more readable and interesting than most sports books, which are generally aimed at an eighth-grade audience...
Punk is excellent as the gentleman's gentleman. He remains dignified but servile throughout Complex, skillfully playing the audience with his lines and manner. The interchange between Birsh, who is discussing military strategy, and Reynolds, who is singing football songs, is both comic and forceful. Stone gives Redford another side, however, and shows him to be as frustrated as the rest of the characters, desperately dreaming of taking Birsh's money and letting others serve...
...manner in which the upgrading was handled displays a painful double standard of justice for those who resisted during the war in Vietnam. Draft evaders, who were generally white, middle-class, and college-educated, received a blanket pardon. Deserters, however, who were largely black, poor, or ill-educated, were given the burden of applying to have their discharges upgraded to erase the official stigma. Those who were aware of the program, who were not afraid of battling the bureaucracy once more, and who were eligible for the program, were given upgraded discharges. But the process should have been much simpler...
Such details could be overlooked if the acting weren't so uneven. Regina, the daughter, is written as the center of energy in the children's conflict; but Robin Lane, complete with Barbie Doll face and cocktail waitress hairstyle, gives an annoyingly superficial performance. Her flirtatious manner, exaggerated gestures, even he phrasing, are all much too predictable: she extrapolates the obvious from each line, rather than offering any emotional integrity or depth of characterization...