Word: manneredness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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La Fille Mal Gardée represents a total contrast in mood. In the Royal's English version, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, it is like an animated John Constable landscape. The story tells of the romance between young Farmer Colas (Nureyev) and Lise (Merle Park), daughter of the...
Chapman's directorial talents emerge as he harnesses the brute power of the hulking Jon Epstein. The director bottles Epstein into the cold and calculating Undershaft of this second act. In this section we hate this mild-mannered munitions manufacturer who wants to donate his blood-stained profits to the...
The Cambridge of 80 or 100 years ago was a sedate and well-mannered place, if Cambridge Sketches by Cambridge Authors, published in 1896 by the Cambridge YWCA, is to be believed. This guide to the city is not a work of history, and not even well-written. It is...
Systems and Signs. There is no longer any difficulty in seeing the best of pop as a mannered game with art language, rather than a vulgarian's assault on le beau et le bien. Ten years ago, Art Historian Robert Rosenblum predicted that "the initially unsettling imagery of pop...
She works up a mannered creature with bulging eyes and squeaking voice who never suggests Daisy's strength, her greed, or even her gaiety and charm.