Word: manneredness
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IT IS CARRIED to near perfection by Simone Signoret's brilliant rendition of Madame Rosa and Samy Ben Youn's impressive performance as Momo. The only flaws, which are minor, lie in the set and the atmosphere portrayed, not in the acting. For instance, Madame Rosa's children are too...
Early in the story, before Narrator Koerner has found his voice, there are a few sentences a bit too mannered and elliptical. "Some of them a sensible man would have paused with, perhaps found whatever it was he thought he was looking for," writes Schickel of Koerner's women...
The ill-mannered Rhode Island squad contributed to its own demise in the lopsided meet by denying the Crimson several accepted fencing courtesies and thus angering them before the first bout. After the meet Harvard captain Nancy Cooper admitted "We were very angry. We're sorry we lost any bouts...
Take Bea Leaguered, for example, a mild-mannered office worker and the heroine of a skit put on by "The 9to5 Players" at a fund-raiser in Boston last week. She is oppressed again and again by wicked bosses. One day her friends take pity on her and present her...
Oh God! is the bland, slow-moving story of a mild-mannered assistant market manager (John Denver), who is visited by God (George Burns). God, troubled by all that nasty war and pollution, would like Denver to spread the Word that He wishes it would stop. Denver is understandably reluctant...