Word: manneredness
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At the Hollister Hills Recreational Park south of town, whole packs of mild-mannered motorcyclists ride up and down the fault every weekend for $1.50 a day. Campers arriving early enough can pitch their tents or park their vans right on the fault line and get a closeup look at...
There is, however, something more at stake here than sexual politics. The new films about gays have so far refused to acknowledge that sexual outlook has an influence on aesthetics. We would not expect a celibate straight director to make a film indistinguishable from that of a celebrated roué...
Yet they retain a distinctive intensity, quiet and mannered, that goes with their aloof and somewhat ambiguous degree of abstraction. When Diebenkorn wants to set a curve flowing across the paper, its rhythm acquires a detached mellowness, a quality of reverie; this wandering of the hand is constantly checked and...
The result is visual gobbledygook. An example is the new crop of "postmodern" buildings. They are three-dimensional collages of discrepant ornament and styles. The design of most new interiors, furniture, cars, appliances and printed matter also continues to follow ill-mannered fads rather than good form. A confusion of...
There are strains. The grandparents prefer to speak Spanish at home and tune in only Spanish-language TV and radio programs, Don Carlos, center, and his family while Uva and Jorge switch back and forth between Spanish and English programs, and Uvi and Christina strictly prefer American offerings. The grandmother...