Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devastation became clear, European officials fired a barrage of criticism at Swiss authorities, complaining that they had failed to supply news about the accident for 24 hours and then had not properly warned neighboring countries about the extent of the damage. "The Swiss have treated us in a beastly manner," complained Neelie Smit-Kroes, the Dutch Minister for Transport and Public Works. The Swiss assuaged tempers somewhat by accepting responsibility for the accident and stating that they would consider paying compensation. The delay in getting out information about the accident, said Swiss officials, was due to a "misunderstanding...
...students who deal drugs or use serious drugs such as cocaine face expulsion, Edwards adds. Most of the students who were thrown out of the residence halls this fall were underage, and involved in incidents in which they became drunk and acted in a destructive manner, he says...
That she does, later, as a lady of pleasure, madam and finally founder of an international chain of Schools of Love. But Ellen's experiences are no more colorful than her manner of reporting them. Burgess turns his heroine's "Uneducated English" into a marvelously supple and comic tool of exposition. When she recalls the job that finally did her father in, a pianoplaying marathon in Blackpool, Ellen tries to give some sense of Billy's repertoire during his last 15 days at the keyboard; several pages of song titles follow, including Beethoven's Mignonette in G, the Pilgrim...
...strong consumer-protection laws but also worked for abolition of price controls on oil and gas. When campaigning back home, Wirth shucks his stylish Washington dress in favor of cowboy boots and big belt buckles, but some Democratic pols think he must cultivate a more genuinely down-to-earth manner. Says one: "It's something Tim needs to work on. He can't seem to help letting people know that he is smarter and busier than they...
...novel Heavy Sand, about Soviet Jews' persecution by the Nazis during World War II. He describes his new work, which is set in the year 1934, as a "group portrait" of his own generation at a time when Stalin was consolidating power before the Great Terror. In the manner of Tolstoy's War and Peace, the novel mixes fact and fiction, historical figures and imaginary ones. Most important, it contains a "full portrait of the man" Stalin, Rybakov told the New York Times, "multifaceted as he was, including his merits as a politician, his ambitions...