Word: manneredness
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Some art is wallpaper. Bacon's is flypaper, and innumerable claims stick to it: over the past 40 years it has attracted extremes of praise and calumniation. There are still plenty of people who see his work as icily mannered, sensationalist guignol. He is the sort of artist whose work...
Before long, the impeccably well-mannered and well-dressed young doctor had made his grisly mark. Whenever cattle cars filled with detainees rolled into the camp, Mengele was there to greet the new arrivals. With a nonchalant flick of his hand, he consigned some to labor duty, some to the...
Since he sold the first machine in 1970, Jones has manufactured some 400,000 of the devices. The company he owns, Nautilus Sports/Medical Industries (estimated 1984 sales: $300 million), has become the leading U.S. maker of exercise equipment. Jones, however, is even more extraordinary than his machine. No mild-mannered...
Even bad Shakespeare contains more nuggets of literary gold than half the premieres of a normal Broadway season Kilty started off well in taking a chainsaw to Shakespeare's text: the lopped off lines are not missed. He set the play in interwar England, the land of tea, croquet, and...
Norris says he feels that acting ability is less important than "screen presence." Maybe so, but he takes artlessness to an extreme. Gary Cooper seems mannered and fidgety by comparison. As a loner cop in Lone Wolf McQuade (1983) or as a loner cop in Code of Silence, Norris comes...