Word: mannerize
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...certainly unfortunate that John Hancock felt the need to include such a clause in the contract, its actions are entirely understandable and appropriate. Clauses such as this are common in other contracts, and this will be an additional incentive for the IOC to conduct itself in a manner that reflects the honor and integrity of the games...
...phantom foe clearly craved attention. He got it in the shape of a front-page media frenzy, a full-scale FBI investigation and a hastily convened White House conference on Web hacking. And yet he stubbornly refused to show up at his own party, prompting PC paranoia and all manner of conspiracy theories...
...confront the audience in such a manner during a production is, in a sense, to kill that audience. But the audience itself is a deadening mechanism. The darkness of a theater allows us to think compassionate thoughts but deadens us to the full implications of those thoughts. And it allows us to enter a temporary state of non-existence. To kill the audience, then, is to give birth to a new type of person, a person who is suddenly aware of his or her own temporary non-existence and the thoughts that characterize that world. The death of the audience...
...President Neil Rudenstine speaks in a very slow, off-kilter manner. His speeches weird...
Fortunately though, the second half of the play saw an amazing improvement. This was due largely to the efforts of Geidt, whose Truscott really brings out the flavor of Orton's sardonic lines. Dismissing the corruption of the British police and his own ineptitude with the same casual deadpan manner, Geidt successfully conveys the amorality of Orton's society. And that really is the true genius of Loot: that devil-may-care attitude to any sense of right and wrong or to any constancy at all. None of the characters try too hard to hide their crimes, and they very...