Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the Social Democrats, a centrist spin-off group, he took quite a political risk. But he says he had to. "The Labour Party had a great tradition of reform in Britain, and now they're destroying themselves.... They're going very far to the left in manner which the British people, who are very sensible and moderate, will not tolerate...
Civil Rights. Heavy majorities of both houses favored a bill, attached as a rider to the continuing resolution, that would have overturned a Supreme Court decision and ordered the Government to stop all financial aid to any institution that discriminates in any manner. The Senate voted 92 to 4 to break a filibuster by Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah against the bill. Hatch then threatened to offer 1,000-odd amendments and demand a vote on each. Oregon Republican Bob Packwood, a prime shaper of the civil rights bill, reluctantly moved to kill his own legislation and clear the decks...
...biggest mistake is Fred's. He falls for Lady Rosemary Radley, a blond and creamy television actress whose aristocratic public manner contrasts drastically with Lady R. the private shrew and slob...
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Albert Brodsky (Ryan O'Neal) and Lucy Van Patten (Shelley Long) "meet cute," in the traditional manner of romantic comedies. He is a film scholar hitchhiking to a job at UCLA. She's an aspiring writer who picks Albert up and marries him four days later. Little Casey (played by Drew Barrymore when she reaches dialogue age) and the career moves quickly follow. The film is at its knowing, uncynical best as it observes Albert parlaying his knowledge of movie trivia into a career as an authentic au-teur-especially of his own misery. Lucy, the girl...