Word: mannerize
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...turns out to be ill equipped (to begin with, the phone doesn't work) and quite breachable by determined miscreants. This movie, written by David Koepp, is a fairly standard exercise in claustrophobic menace. It is also an exercise in style. If you like director David Fincher's manner--a fluid camera moving quickly through underlighted, underfurnished spaces--you may find it more artful than the usual stalker movie...
...Clinton took the stage, to great applause. "I love Sarah and Jim Brady," he said. "Their story is a story of laughter, love and courage. I have extolled Jim Brady's virtues in a disgusting manner for years. These people have lived with pressure for 20 years, and they keep showing up. The least we can do is support them. Countless numbers of people are alive because of the Brady Bill. They have endured so much abuse. They fight after everything they have given to their country." Afterwards, we asked Clinton how his book is coming. "I'm having...
...Thus, fastidiously measuring such shows as "The West Wing" against reality is a more suitable exercise for the obsessive-compulsive than it is for citizens trying to determine if it bears any relationship to reality. In my view "The West Wing" treats its topics in a serious and responsible manner. It fairly captures the mood and drama of political decision-making. The show thoroughly explores both sides of issues ripped from current news, and still manages to keep Americans paying attention...
...work of the victims that only insiders could have known, suggesting that there may be a terrorist mole involved in government-labor negotiations. "You begin to look around," says one government economist who recently worked with Biagi. "You think about being more careful, working in a more hidden manner, maybe not putting your name on a particular document...
This vibrance is critical, for the play’s pertinent message could have been lost if the central concerns of rape, two-timing men, abortion and, most important, deliverance were presented in an exhaustive, ponderous manner...