Word: mannerize
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...called "Mighty Marvel Manner," a combination of idiot-level exposition, purple prose, absurdly contrived fight scenes and melodramatic pathos, can be done right or wrong. Mostly it gets done wrong. But when done right, as by its founders Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, and here by Simonson, it can be a delight and impossible to put down. On the first page of this four-issue series Dr. Doom hovers over a storm-swept castle as his doom-bots, "the banshees of hate," come, "skirling down through the sleet... carried on the wings of the whistling wind!" I challenge...
Delivering a big victory to Labor will not advance the racist cause. For the past 30 years, Labor has supported non-white immigration, Aboriginal rights and the notion of a multicultural Australia in an impressive manner. That is not going to change just because Pauline Hanson can deliver a few votes...
...tonight, that entrepreneurial spirit will be employed in a slightly unconventional manner, as student members of TECH host a video game tournament and study break...
...keeping all terms of all agreements." On its face, it would seem that this was a reasonable position, showing that the American dedication to democracy and human rights will not be mocked and that its agreements with potentially aggressive nations should be strictly enforced in a transparent manner. It would have been a constructive statement of policy--if only Bush had first stopped to remember that the U.S. has only one minor agreement with North Korea and that there is no reason to believe that it is has been violated, as aides later confirmed...
...effort. Slobodan Milosevic was whipping up Serbian nationalism, and the rest of the world was only dimly aware of the simmering ethnic mix that was about to explode in Yugoslavia. Tall, with fair hair, fluent in English and several other languages, "Frenki" was noted for his calm, professorial manner--and a fondness for Raybans. His main accomplishment was having successfully spied on U.S. diplomats at their Belgrade embassy during the cold...