Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation is still unpredictable. But one thing is clear the people are no longer the same people. They have laughed together at the emperor's new dress. It is difficult to fool or menace or manipulate them in the same old manner. Times have changed. A new chapter in Chinese history has started. Modern democracy, a manifest destiny, is moving from the west to the east. People have learned that, instead of yielding their power to a handful of people to act under their name against their will, they must take control of their own destinies...
These attitudes are revisited in Dead Poets Society, which assiduously apes the manner of this antique genre, and they may put off viewers who will recollect having heard this song before. But the film is also at pains not to exploit or endorse the lowest impulses of its core audience, which is, of course, composed of adolescents. It contains no har-har pranks. No one wrecks a car, gets drunk or does anything more with a girl than hold hands...
...adopt a law that officially recognizes the unions of live-in lovers, whether homosexual or heterosexual. Mayor Art Agnos has pledged to sign the bill, which permits couples who have agreed to share basic living expenses to register their "domestic partnerships" at the county clerk's office in a manner similar to filing a marriage license...
...battleship U.S.S. Iowa, the Navy presented one of the heroes of | the disaster at a press conference: Gunner's Mate Third Class Kendall Truitt, 21, who had been sacking powder in a lower-level magazine when the blast took 47 lives. A bespectacled sailor with a mild manner, Truitt calmly recounted his escape from the burning turret. Last week the Navy's inconclusive probe of the explosion took a bizarre twist, and Truitt was shoved front and center again -- but hardly as a hero. Investigators said Truitt might have set off the explosion to kill a shipmate and collect...
...Could you guys hold on a second," he said in a friendly, but firm, manner. "There's been an armed robbery...