Word: mannerize
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...four of his works were staged--four new works, that is--and all did well enough to make it to the U.S. And he has self-confident charm by the bucketful: posh accent; a casually elegant wardrobe created by his fashion-designer wife Nicole Farhi; and an erudite conversational manner, splashed with amusing anecdotes about Salman Rushdie and Philip Roth...
...paying them the $10 an hour that Harvard can afford and that would put those employees over the poverty line and by actually lowering their wages, Harvard stands to make its human rights record worse, not better. I am sincerely hopeful that Harvard will act in as enlightened a manner with respect to these other two campaigns as they have with the anti-sweatshop students. I know that I, at least, plan to keep watch until they...
...council's action was symbolic--the University will co-fund the student center. If we can win University funding this way, why not pledge some of the money to a charitable cause in the same manner? I realize that the council tries to allocate money as Harvard students wish. But I believe that Harvard students are charitable...
...Beautiful, one thing is certain--direction is not the film's strong suit. Benigni keeps things moving ably enough, certainly. But there is a huge gap between competence and excellence in directing, a gap which is not bridged in this picture. Each scene is shot in a relatively utilitarian manner, and though this method worked well in context, it did not allow Benigni to establish enough of a distinctive style to wow the Academy into suspending their anti-foreign prejudices...
...once before, in 1969, wasa foreign film nominated for both Best Picture andForeign Film--Costa-Gavras' taut politicalthriller Z. The movie was great but of course tookBest Foreign Film honors rather than Best Picture.Benigni's film, too, is a very good one and willbe duly rewarded in the same manner...