Word: manneredness
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In 1963 Lawrence of Arabia won the Academy Award as best film, but another nominated picture seemed to move America more, To Kill a Mockingbird, about race and justice and hope in the South. The music of young Americans was changing from perky love songs to stuff of a different...
The novel's major puzzles are why Brennan, the tough old cop on the surveillance team, has gone wrong after a good career; and why Harry Dell'Appa, the smart, cocky young cop, was banished to the Siberia of western Massachusetts. When Dell'Appa finally figures things out, it's...
Every costume told a story. David Gergen disguised himself as Richard Nixon, his hands rising in the famous V-for-victory gesture. The much feared adviser and friend Susan Thomases was a Pilgrim. Affable communications director Mark Gearan became a gorilla, while mild-mannered personnel chief Bruce Lindsey wore a...
But this thoughtfulness eventually takes on a mannered, self-conscious tone. The audience can see the actors rearranging themselves after every speech; meaningful glances are bandied around pointedly during the opening scenes a la Perry Mason, and Stewart won't surrender an inch of the theatre to dead space. The...
Metzinger's story was more shocking than anything Carroll could have imagined. To friends and neighbors, she was mild-mannered Alice, who had moved to Oregon's Willamette Valley 15 years ago with her infant son Jaime (she has never named the biological father). She became involved with a local...