Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there is Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar. As Theresa Dunn, Keaton dominates this raunchy, risky, violent dramatization of Judith Ressner's 1975 novel about a schoolteacher who cruises singles bars. Watching her is a shock for viewers who associate her shy and awkward manner with Annie Hall. She is on-screen for well over two hours while her character disintegrates in the direction of alienation and death...
...very funny and says, "That Woody Allen, he's something! I can't make head or tail out of half of what he says." She, not Diane, appears to be the ranking family cutup; when Diane's sister Dorrie, 24, had to write a genealogical essay in the manner of Roots for college, Grammy Hall obligingly gave phony details about ancestors unto the fifth generation...
Worse because of the embarrassing manner in which defeat was wrought. Sure, the loss of the first-string quarterback, the limited multi flex that had to pass for an offense as a result and what is becoming to feel like the weekly Saturday rain all contributed to the debacle. The turnovers and porous performance of the offensive line didn't exactly help, either...
...brush the maestro's sleeve as he hurried to his limousine. None of the extramusical sycophancy would have turned Stokowski's head. He was unjustly thought an egotist because of his theatrics on the podium, his links with wealthy and glamorous Hollywood women and his self-styled revolutionary manner. But even the indefensible wrangling over money with the Philadelphia Orchestra was neutralized when 40 years later Stokowski founded the American Symphony Orchestra and paid for the first season of six concerts out of his own pocket...
...this, of course, and does a neat job of ignoring it. The book, he maintains, is only a psychological profile, not a definitive tome on American business practices. And to an extent, he is right: as a psychologist, he deals in the abstract, approaching society with a precise scientific manner that far outclasses the pat ramblings of pop sociologists such as Vance Packard and Alvin Toffler. His findings are interesting, and certainly valuable for their portrayal of the different types of drives that keep the engine of the American economy running. Indeed, in one chapter, Maccoby strikes home with...