Word: manneredness
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Instead of going along with any trend toward banning textiles, the Administration shot its South Africa policy in the foot again last week by announcing that it had reached an agreement with Pretoria to increase U.S. imports of South African textiles by 4% a year. The unfortunate timing managed to...
James Hinkle's ordeal began when he ran into a snag while loading a $400 program called Framework into his Kaypro Model 16 computer. He carefully reread the Framework instruction book for guidance but failed to find it. Stymied, the Alameda, Calif., dentist called the service number printed in the...
This time students are being brought into the process. A mild-mannered and well-meaning administrator who deserves better than this degrading exercise in damage control has been sent to the Quadrangle to speak to residents, to find out which parts of the planned renovations they would value most, and...
Outwardly, the show, which opened off Broadway last week, is a farce. In pursuit of his ambition, the mild-mannered host (John Cunningham) squabbles with his wife (Debra Mooney), snubs friends, forces drinks on the unwilling, tries to orchestrate the tempo of encounters, wages war against spontaneity. His every move...
Granted the zippy registration of Katz's style and his constant ingenuity at fitting stacks of faces into difficult and mannered formats, given his bonhomie and sense of the social moment, the freshness of his color and the adroitness with which he makes his art-historical references--all this admitted...