Word: mannerisms
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...this manner, Harding very often serves as the voice of the novel, writing topically satirical letters to The Bill Board and playing bizarre, but telling, pranks on his classmates and the school itself. The novel presents him as almost omnipotent; none of his peers or teachers can understand him or his motives, but, to him, everything is clear...
Frailty is told from McConaughey’s standpoint in a manner eerily reminiscent of Keyser Soze’s narrative in The Usual Suspects. As such, the first two-thirds of the film’s action is filtered through Fenton’s perspective and therefore tainted. However, McConaughey is barely worthy to serve even as Kevin Spacey’s personal assistant as he authors his own tale. McConaughey lacks the charisma, the composure and the personality quirks to make his recounting of the events truly compelling, although the vignettes depicted on screen do redeem his bland...
Within these settings, the multiple characters portrayed by Smith and Fee blend into one another, which is not due to a shortcoming on the part of the cast, but rather to the fact that all of their characters respond to the situations in basically the same manner, despite superficial differences. These responses are governed by a code in which what is permissible in the dark shadows of the bedroom under the cover of night, and what can be exposed in the bright light of day, is divided as sharply as the play?...
...Pier Paolo Pasolini. Lucie Markvartova's "Switch On-Off" builds a story out of all the buttons a finger must push throughout the day. Many pieces are like Wostok and Grabowski's fantastical "Daddy Where Are You," about a little girl who follows Daddy's beard through all manner of obstacles only to find him as a TV image. Either through edgy graphics or strange, dreamy story lines, nearly all the pieces defy conventional, Western comix storytelling and styles...
DIED. DUDLEY MOORE, 66, 5-ft. 2-in. British actor whose droopy-eyed, self-effacing manner made him an unlikely Hollywood heartthrob; of pneumonia, stemming from progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare brain disease; in Plainfield, N.J. A talented classical and jazz pianist, Moore was best known for his roles in the 1979 movie 10 (which he nabbed after meeting director Blake Edwards in a therapy group) and the 1981 film Arthur, in which he played a sweet, wealthy drunk. Spurred to perform by a sense of inferiority stemming in part from a clubfoot, the working-class Moore said...