Word: mannered
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...concern may stem from the manner in which Iraq's election has transformed the distribution of power in Iraq. The U.S. remains in control of the security forces, both Iraqi and American, but it no longer controls the political space in the way that it did when the government was in the hands of U.S. administrator J. Paul Bremer and, subsequently, a U.S.-picked leadership. The election produced a new political leadership over which the U.S. has very little influence, and which may differ substantially with Washington on a range of issues, including - perhaps most importantly - the training, equipping...
...panel. The disdain for intellectual and political freedom being exhibited before the panel stood in stark contrast to the protest be carried out in good taste right outside the Science Center doors. The so-called progressive student disrupters should attempt to engage in a more intellectually rigorous manner instead of staging farcical skits and rude cell-phone ringing orchestration. That students chose to rudely belittle the guest panelists was an embarrassment to intellectual freedom and political movements at Harvard. Because of the naïve actions of a group of individuals, political protests will now become further regulated...
...Grosvenor House, U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese picked up Thatcher's suggestion and said the Reagan Administration might soon begin discussions with the news media about whether their coverage of the hostage crisis was "helpful or hurtful from the standpoint of getting the crisis ended in a satisfactory manner." Meese carefully noted that the ability of the press to speak freely should be protected, but added, "There is an area of mutual good will on the part of the press and law enforcement authorities. There are areas where the press itself is not only willing but anxious to cooperate." Meese...
...expensive nowadays to attempt the miraculously detailed subtlety of Pinocchio, which remains the masterpiece of the Disney manner. But the new boys know how to create wonderful transformations in a character's expression with a deft stroke or two, and they have mastered the deliciously parodistic plasticity required by the movements of their ever twisting-turning-tumbling creatures. Their pastoral scenes still glow with the old Disney sweetness, and the ones of foreboding glower with the old relish for the grotesque. They satisfy an older viewer's nostalgic feeling for his childhood's delight while fulfilling the younger crowd...
...case of a star like Hudson, to millions of fans who they fear cannot and will not accept the truth. For years they have played a cat-and-mouse game with a press that for the most part is sympathetic. Now many of them are being exposed in a manner crueler than any scandal sheet could ever have devised: by a frightening, incurable and invariably fatal disease...