Word: manner
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...Julia Child is still a legend: "She had, in the words of one fan, an 'unassuming, unruffled manner.' She was not prissy - she would stick her fingers in the sauce to taste, lick spoons, drop ingredients, and then toss them into the stew pot. As different as she was from her predecessors, so she was from her progeny. Today's cooking shows groom their hosts for celebrity-hood. For non-live shows, any dropped utensils or unsanitary peccadilloes can be edited out. Those imperfections, however, were a crucial element to Child's persona...
...established Paris eatery which harmoniously pairs understated French cuisine with theatrical entertainment of the highest order - the front-of-house ensemble are all trained opera singers specializing in bel canto (meaning beautiful singing), the melodic Italian vocal style of the 18th and early 19th centuries, which impresses with all manner of embellishments, fast scales and long trills. The playlist judiciously balances pieces that appeal to the aesthete yet remain accessible to the opera-ignorant: most of the extracts - performed for a couple of minutes at approximately 15-minute intervals - are familiar arias by Verdi, Rossini, Bizet and Mozart...
...whether it comes in the form of an immaculately composed rock garden, an elaborately carved door evocative of a temple, or vast sculptures. The bushy-bearded artist says he wants to breathe life into the otherwise inanimate structures. "The Black House evokes the past Thai civilization in a contemporary manner," says Thawan. "I try to bring the spirit, heart and soul in their life [into the pieces]." His 33-year-old project is a poetic work in progress: he has plans for another five houses, to be completed within three years...
...Eastern Partnerships accord wound up more like the first date from hell. Instead of feeling the welcoming embrace the program had promised, representatives from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine instead got a European straight-arm designed to keep them at a safe distance. Indeed, given the manner in which the courtship has begun, some observers now wonder whether any of the parties involved can ever hope to make beautiful music together...
...many people, the manner in which they present themselves on Facebook has come to mirror how they see themselves in real life. Photos broadcast the fun they're having, status updates say what's on their mind and a change in relationship status announces their availability, commitment or something in between...