Word: mannerize
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...should melt the hearts of cynical Americans everywhere to see the U.S. Senate behaving in such a magnanimous manner. Wednesday, 100 senators voted to repeal the current Social Security penalties on workers 65 and older. That's right: It was unanimous, and there was no name-calling. OK, it is an election year, and older Americans do make up the most powerful voting bloc in the country, but all that aside, isn't it wonderful to see Democrats and Republicans working together, even if they can't agree on real Social Security reform...
...gave me an opportunity to communicate to my peers in a formal, public manner that I intend to live according to my own ideals of social justice," he said...
Just how crazy? The next day, Ford shot himself in his bedroom. "He was fine. Nothing in his manner indicated he would kill himself," said his lawyer, Stephen Klarich, who spent the morning with...
...flawed spies. Romances must end happily; the spirited heroine must bring the male of her choice to heel--"civilize" or "tame" him, as romance authors like to put it--before the final clinch and fade-out. Defenders often point out that mysteries must also conclude in a predetermined manner: the crime is solved, the suspect unmasked. But that analogy won't wash, since the identity of the guilty party in mysteries is withheld until the end. Romance heroines and readers rarely doubt which man is in her sights or whether he will succumb...
Stephen King's publisher, Simon & Schuster, tried something new yesterday, releasing a book by a major author solely as a $2.50 online download. Described by King as a "ghost story in the grand manner," "Riding the Bullet" is only 16,000 words - roughly equivalent to 40 printed pages - but the Internet experiment is a major milestone for the nascent e-books industry...