Word: manneredness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The show at the Winter Garden Theater* is called Follies, a title self-consciously suggesting irony and double meanings. At its worst moments, Follies is mannered and pretentious, overreaching for Significance. At its best moments?and there are many?it is the most imaginative and original new musical that Broadway...
The star, unquestionably, was Ustinov. Without his insightful improvisation and mannered performance, the program would have been as forced as some of the old You Are There sagas or as deadly as a grade-school audio-visual lesson. Ustinov may do an encore when the series deals with King George...
In a bristling letter to the White House, 200 Taiwanese legislators last week warned Nixon that his policy was "unrealistic and fallacious." Taipei's semi-independent United Daily News, in an almost unheard of salvo at Chiang's Cabinet, blasted the Foreign Ministry for being "cowardly and insensitive...
Burrows, 44, had covered conflicts across the world-in Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Cyprus and the Congo. But the lanky, gentle-mannered Englishman had very personal feelings about Viet Nam. "Be it exotic meetings with Madame Nhu, or sleeping on a stretcher on a Vietnamese patrol, or sharing a sock of...
For example, Soldier Blue made ample use of amputees, many children, to reproduce the results of a bloody massacre. Isn't there something chilling-not to say inhuman-in having a child reenact the loss of a limb? It made for a great press of course. All the national weeklies...