Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francine, Minnelli is wholesome, glib, plucky - more a familiar manner than a characterization. Despite some heavy histrionics in her marital squabbles with Jimmy, there is a sense in her performance of counting the choruses till her next solo. Indeed, the latter half of the film moves toward her virtual apotheosis in a series of climactic production numbers. Their impact depends on how you feel about Liza's nightclub...
...young man, John Worthing (James Valentine), who invents a dissolute brother, and its other young man, Algernon Moncrieff (John Glover), who blithely proceeds to impersonate him. This is farce walking the tightrope of absurdity. But it is also farce at its most urbane - as insolently monocled in manner as it is killingly high-toned in language...
...taken for granted, and most murder mysteries do not delve any further into the matter, save for a few offhand comments on the fallibility of the men in the white hats. Bo Widerberg's Man on the Roof, however, confronts this automatic assumption in a serious and thought-provoking manner, functioning not only as a top-notch suspense film but also as a valuable comment on our naive notions regarding just who is good and who is evil in both fictional and real-life situations...
...hailed as an unquestionably good Queen," told TIME that he was "almost moved to tears" by her stroll from St. Paul's to Guildhall last week. "Until quite recently," Grigg noted, "the stuffier kind of monarchists felt that the Queen couldn't behave in an informal manner without demeaning herself. But in fact it enhances her. Not only can she do it, but she clearly enjoys doing...
Ireland's Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, with his wisp of mustache, starched collar, bowler hat and understated manner, often looks like a Downstairs character asking a small favor of the man Upstairs. And indeed, until recently, the Irish were among the profligates of Europe, living it up as if someone else were responsible for their bills. Wages wildly outstripped productivity. Unemployment was the highest in Western Europe; inflation raged at an 18% rate. Public debt zoomed moonward at a catastrophic speed, while the idea of restricting consumption to narrow an enormous deficit elicited a knowing snigger. By calling...