Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force Alone. The British credited Khrushchev's change of manner to Macmillan's unruffled stand. The British have always insisted that they are good at this kind of talking, and Macmillan, fighting flu internally and Nikita's slings from without, went through his ordeal with unflagging style. In private he firmly conveyed to the Soviet leader the danger of misunderstanding the West's determination to remain in Berlin. In public he answered Khrushchev's call for a non-aggression pact by proposing that "our disputes should be settled by negotiation and not by force...
...fighting words and friendly asides, he has raised and lowered the cold war temperature at will. How much this constant shifting of attitudes was deliberate, how much impulsive, perhaps not even Khrushchev himself knew, or knows. But no one could deny his skill at getting the most out of manner without giving way on matter...
...mistress Lulu ("Take her to the zoo"). But before Lulu (Tammy Grimes) can say "zoo, la la," she wakes up in bed with her chaperon. She promptly dives under it to make room for Marcel's own mistress, a mock-seductive duchess (Polly Rowles) with the voice and manner of Poe's Raven. From across the frozen tundra comes the Prince of Salestria, who wants to thaw out with Lulu in the same busy bed. Since Lulu is a cocotte, pleasure is business, but business is also her pleasure. For a 10% share of the loot, she agrees...
...that nonobjective art is the perfect expression of what now seems to be an atomic age, or is in any case a scientificomechanical age, and perhaps that is true. For the nonobjective painting claims validity only for its mechanics, for the material with which it is made and the manner of their organization. It rejects man, his life, his visions, his philosophies, his future...
John Jones and Steven Klass as Eileen's suitors gave spirited, humorous performances; Jones at times almost stealing the action with his ludicrous mannerisms. Carola Kitteridge's caricature of the sister's landlady was one of the delights of the evening. Robert Scher, as the eventual recipient of Ruth's long repressed affections, made up for an adequate voice with his ease and natural stage manner. The roles of the Village lovers, the Wreck and his Helen, were capably filled by Oscar Anderson and Jill Kneerim...