Word: manneredness
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A sometime carpenter with a good reputation among those who've hired him, Rudolph is one of five children reared by a strict and deeply religious mother. Their father, an airline pilot, died when Rudolph was in his early teens. Teresa Morgan, 28, who attended school with the Rudolph kids...
The ancient rites that opened the 18th Winter Games were, in fact, apt for an Olympiad that some had been crowning the Attitude Games. As beach volleyball brought tank tops and bikinied dudes to the Summer Games in Atlanta, snowboarding, most conspicuously, looked to be smuggling a radical edge and...
Remember the horror movie The Hand that Rocks the Cradle? Most mothers do. A real-life sequel played out in Massachusetts last week, when a mild-mannered British au pair was convicted of murdering Matthew Eappen, an eight-month-old left in her care. As it turns out, there was...
Some critics fault Pollini's recent traversal of the Beethoven sonatas as too mannered and conventional. This is doubtless unfair, but it came to mind during Pollini's starkly Olympian, unsmiling performance of the Scherzo. I think his motives are simply misunderstood: his "straight-act" approach seeks to rescue great...
In & Out finds its model in the communal comedies of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges: films like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Hail the Conquering Hero, in which a mild-mannered, small-town fellow is unfairly ostracized or lionized, and in which the prejudices of the vox pop are...