Word: mannerize
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...rookie staff member on Capitol Hill, and Senators were asking to have their picture taken with him. They came to his tiny office for a drink at the end of the day and often wound up talking long into the night. "Youthfulness, combat experience...and as unmilitary a manner as possible," is how McCain once explained the requirements...
...only flaw preventing Darabont's triumphant second effort from being perfect is the manner in which the story begins and ends. Told as a flashback by an older Edgecomb sixty years after the fact, the story opens with scenes that take place in the present. This set-up at the beginning of the film is fine, but the ending just doesn't work. Immediately after the final scene from 1935, the story shifts back to the present for a wrap-up that comes across as contrived (the same problem plagued Saving Private Ryan). Instead of ending the film...
...Carella is has ample opportunity to show off her stunning voice; and although she and Romero are both remarkably talented singers, their dancing is also superb, particularly in "Shall We Dance?" Romero develops Bobby's character to the fullest, in a touching, charming manner, while Carella seems almost born to play the role of Patsy, the sweet-girl-next-door who steals Bobby's heart. Crazy for You, in the tradition of the grand musical comedies of yesteryear, truly does have it all--stellar cast, vocals, dancing, and costumes. As the closing song goes, who could ask for anything more...
...sponsored a successful bill before the council on Sunday night that calls for student representatives to the trust to be elected by the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) in the same manner as other student-Faculty committees...
...family, character and more under siege. For example, a recent staff editorial in The Salient accused the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance of domesticating the Undergraduate Council into a queer lapdog and making Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 into a mere bedfellow, in a manner of speaking. It came as a terrible shock to all of us in the queer community--could someone please direct us to the glorious Harvard in which queer radicals and militant feminists have their...