Word: manneredness
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Civic leaders have responded to the crisis with their customary combativeness. "This is a street fight," Brooklyn Borough President Sebastian Leone told Mayor Abraham Beame at a budget strategy session. "You've got to put your opponents up against the wall." "You're right," responded the embattled mayor...
Needed Lift. What has made most of the difference is some 200 huge murals on the sides of once drab buildings. The idea of the wall paintings-which include bright abstract designs, realistic scenes of barrio life, mannered portraits of saints, Aztec warriors and campesino heroes-was conceived by the...
In contrast to the jaunty Stans, a subdued and sorrowful LaRue last week learned the penalty he must pay for conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. The mild-mannered Mississippi oil heir had admitted taking part in the payoffs to the burglars and had testified for the Government...
Beckett's peculiar genius is to set up such Hobson's choices while squeezing them for all the farce they will yield. His is a Buster Keaton, deadpan humor that shrivels in the explaining. Mercier and Camier is as hilarious, in gasps, as anything he has written. The...
Lackluster Image. The kidnapers said that Lorenz was a "representative of the reactionaries and the big bosses." In fact, Lorenz is a mild-mannered and scholarly politician who has often been criticized by his fellow C.D.U. members for being too much of a moderate. Despite his lackluster low-profile image...