Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...psychological impasse, Begin and his aides have worked for weeks discussing not only what he should say to the President but how to say it and when. Thus Begin may well arrive in Washington this week" holding substantially the same positions as Rabin did, but the man and manner will be vastly different...
...complacency intrudes. There is always an edge of instability, an apprehension, that returns them from the edge of the grand manner to a post-Freudian world. Their dignity is without rhetoric, and in that sense, very little in to day's painting compares with their achievement...
Rochefort brings some freshness even to obligatory scenes like the one in which he must face his officemates decked out in a plum-colored suit, mod haircut and hip new manner. Nodding his head to an imaginary cool beat, he has the odd, rueful grace of a stork with something caught in its throat, and we can almost believe, that a young girl's heart would indeed...
...irascibility has been honed by questionable health and the approach of his 71st birthday. Lucy, whose chief diversion in recent years has been local showings of Hollywood movies, has begun to feel that life with Tusker is not going to get much better. In approved silver-screen manner, she utters dramatic monologues to empty rooms: "Tusker and I do not truly communicate with one another any more... I can't hear what he is thinking and he does not hear what I'm saying...
...mission is to deliver cruise missiles to within range of its targets. It would stop short of Russian borders and fire salvos of missiles to overwhelm Soviet defenses. According to Defense Secretary Harold Brown, all major targets in the U.S.S.R. are within range of cruise missiles fired in this manner...