Word: mannerize
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...some reason - old family history, or maybe it's that one of them beat out the other for president of the student council a long time ago - cannot refrain from whining at each other, just this side of nastiness, as they split hairs over health care in a manner that reduces already tedious policy-wonking to "Did so," "Did not," "So's your...
...eaten Toblerone scattered around the room. Her skin seems pasty, her face is gaunt and barely made up, and her famously full, pouty lips appear in need of Blistex. Still, she exudes a misty, undefinable star quality: there's something edgy yet enigmatic in both her appearance and her manner. Jolie's real-life over-the-top intensity and f__-it-all attitude are nearly as unsettling as her screen performances, like the self-destructive fashion model in HBO's 1998 movie Gia and the dangerously seductive mental patient paired with Winona Ryder in Girl, Interrupted. At 24, she behaves...
...commerce winners of 1998 were those with the slickest websites, the strongest players in 1999 were those who knew how to warehouse merchandise and pick, pack and ship customer orders in a timely manner. "Order fulfillment became very critical," says Anand Sharma, president of TBM Consulting Group, a firm that specializes in improving production lines. "You cannot win in this business without a supply chain that supports a quick turnaround...
...widespread community service involvement of Harvard students is a welcomed surprise. It seems that students prefer affecting change at the micro-level, in a hands-on, feel-good manner. Mentoring a disadvantaged child, for example, strikes many of us as more meaningful than supporting a candidate who promises to change educational programs for that child...
...manner of his leaving the presidency was vintage Yeltsin--bold, blunt, even defiant, but rooted in his core belief in the right and the ability of the Russian people to choose their own leaders and their own course for the future...