Word: mannerize
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...Although you don?t know Phyllis, Phyllis knew everybody. I?m going to flood this column with famous names, and I might even boldface them in the manner of Walter Winchell, the gossip guru who featured Phyllis frequently, and always with respect, in his columns. It?s a facile way of saying that this woman you don?t know touched the lives of the rich and famous with whom she grew up and grew older. But Phyllis wasn?t the sum of her connections; she was the emotional glue that held them together. It wasn?t the people she knew...
...Though Kirkland went Hollywood, Hollywood didn?t go him. Somehow, this fine-featured fellow with the light voice, wavy blond hair and earnest manner didn?t strike sparks with the camera. Within three years he was back on Broadway in 1933, as a member of the radical Group Theatre...
...patrician stage manner might seem out of place among all those urban, lumpen actors with revolutionary dreams - Luther and Stella Adler, Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, Bobby Lewis, Clifford Odets, Jules (later John) Garfield - but the Group needed a leading-man figure, and Kirkland filled the bill. In ?Men in White,? he played the doctor role that Gable would take in the MGM film adaptation the following year. He appeared in Odets? ?Till the Day I Die? and in the title role of ?Case of Clyde Griffiths,? an adaptation of ?An American Tragedy? staged by Lee Strasberg. After leaving...
...modest, easygoing manner belies his single-minded dedication to vaulting at top speed over 10 barriers, each more than a meter high. His parents wanted him to study computer engineering or some other profession befitting his middle-class Shanghai upbringing, but Liu was intent on athletics. He entered a local sports school as a high jumper and then switched to hurdles, although some coaches thought a Chinese athlete shouldn't even bother. But Liu, who hurdled for joy rather than obligation, was hooked. "I liked the fact that so much of hurdles is about technique and that you have...
They ground a plot that's full of logical inconsistencies and does not have quite enough completely compelling incidents to sustain its considerable length. But against these complaints you have to set the linear minimalism of its structure and its blessedly low-tech manner. This is a movie where the cops interrupt the action to pull over the cab for a minor infraction; where, best of all, LOW BATT starts flashing on the cell phone at a crucial moment. In other words, this is a movie that manages somehow to fuse ordinary reality and more or less believable fantasy...