Word: manneredness
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So far the only clear lesson to come out of the U.N. women's conference in Beijing is that China is run by a band of ill- mannered male chauvinist control freaks. The major U.S. news outlets have dwelt, with morbid fascination, on the abuses of women in China, from...
My sophomore year, I attended a reading given by a Radcliffe alumna here at Harvard as part of a publicity package for her latest book. Sitting crowded together in the second floor of the women's studies department, we listened to her speak afterwards about her experiences at Radcliffe in...
The threat began in the 1930s, when the aggressive red fire ants came to Mobile, Alabama, perhaps on shiploads of lumber imported from the insects' home territory in South America (the milder-mannered black fire ant had arrived, also from the Southern Hemisphere, in 1918). In the 1950s and early...
Authenticity is an essential element of the blues, and the problem with Polly Jean Harvey's CD is that there is not a single honest emotion in it. A listener feels like shouting at her, e la Tom Cruise confronting Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, "I want the...
Berendt's book recounts the bizarre story of Jim Williams, a socially prominent antiques dealer who was tried four times for shooting and killing Danny Hansford, a Camaro-driving handyman and hustler. But the book is no typical true-crime thriller; it is as close to Paul Theroux as it...