Word: mannerize
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Ever the great imagemaker, he cast himself to the French public as a symbol both of the virtuous frontier freedom romanticized by Rousseau and of the Enlightenment's reasoned wisdom championed by Voltaire. In a clever and deliberate manner, leavened by the wit and joie de vivre the French so adored, he portrayed the American cause, through his own personification of it, as that of the natural state fighting the corrupted one. He made a point of eschewing powdered wigs and formal dress, instead wearing a fur cap he had picked up years earlier on a trip to Canada...
...comes as no surprise that the relationship between the professional classes of the supposedly autonomous Special Administrative Region and the handpicked mandarins who govern them is in this parlous state. Beijing's high-handed manner?and the supine appeasement with which the Hong Kong government generally greets its pronouncements?has left many feeling voiceless over the past six years...
...last thing the French would want to see is the crowning of a Yank as Tour champ - especially one who hails from the same state as George W. Bush. What could be more galling to the Gauls on July 27 than to see Lance Armstrong - whose record, cocksure manner and red-white-and-blue, government-sponsored U.S. Postal Service team screams American domination - atop the podium on the Champs-Elysées for a historic fifth straight time? After all, Armstrong has not just dominated their Tour the last four years, he has changed its character by introducing private jets...
That decision, according to Boston attorney Harvey A. Silverglate, who co-founded the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and has long taken an interest in Harvard’s internal politics, ruled that university policies concerning tenure should be decided by the Courts only in a general manner in the event a lawsuit is filed...
...manner in which the Sun family's lawsuit against Guangzhou's government was resolved seems a more telling indicator of what's to come. Pressure from the media meant that an unprecedented number of state employees were disciplined. But the Guangdong provincial government issued a statement declaring that its C.-and-R. procedures are consistent with national policy. Sun's father, meanwhile, received a $53,000 settlement?and a team of police escorts, he told Time, to prevent him from discussing the case with the media. Nicolas Becquelin, research director of the New York City-based Human Rights in China...