Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strike by the Amalgamated Transit Union against Greyhound bus lines is the latest ripple in a cascade of union defeats. Workers are expected to vote this week on cuts in wages and benefits amounting to 14%. But the pay concessions themselves were far less significant than the manner in which they were achieved. Although the union put on a defiant show of solidarity and won widespread popular support, it was unable to influence the company...
Indeed, the Council has proceeded with this issue in a most backward and expensive manner. The Council should start from scratch, and conduct informal (i.e. non-monetary) surveys of the house committees. From these grassroots discussions, sufficient ideas will emerge so that the Council can plan a whole program of University-wide social events (ranging from concerts to festivals to contests). If it is found to be absolutely necessary, then the Council can conduct a survey to determine which concerts to stage and which festivals to hold...
Apart from manner and attitude, there are other grounds for criticism: reporting from Washington tends, inevitably, to be highly speculative and to rely heavily on anonymous sources and undocumented assertions. Critics also fault the capital's press corps for preoccupation with politics and frequent failure to delve into the performance of government agencies, which spend the bulk of the nation's budget...
Jaskowiak and Wolf appear equally uncomfortable on stage. Their rigid and unnatural manner of moving, along with the vapid manner in which they rattle off their lines, makes the audience feel self-conscious. Moreover, the whiny manner in which Jasowiak delivers her lines grates on the audience after five minutes of forced, unvaried delivery. Both performances do little more than delay the two long-awaited intermissions...
...first major production he designed was the 1975 Glyndebourne version of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, its libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Hockney, never embarrassed about paying homage to his aesthetic hearth gods, did the whole thing in the manner of Hogarth's engravings of that moral phantasmagoria set in 18th century England, stylizing the sets into crosshatched black-and-white etchings. Their graphic wit and punch reached a memorable climax in the final scene, where poor Tom Rakewell, insane at last, finds himself in Bedlam. The wall is covered with graffiti, each...