Word: mannerize
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...politicians have figured out anything about medicine, it's that a bedside manner makes a difference. Hillary Clinton learned this painfully, when the postmortems on her health-care plan suggested that her high-handed style hastened its demise. Newt Gingrich is not about to make the same mistake. He has known for months that his whole grand scheme to balance the budget depends on reinventing Medicare, one of the biggest, fattest, most popular and most expensive pieces of the Federal Government. So back in the spring Gingrich began plotting his moves, all the while bearing in mind that when...
Some of her critics believe Mother Angelica has become at least unintentionally subversive of her antifeminist goals by becoming a teaching authority in her own right. It is easy to see why she is. Her comforting manner, her reliance on traditional formulas and even her grandmotherly ire against "liberalism" appeal strongly to Catholics nostalgic for the old church of certainty. As she proudly proclaimed in her 1993 diatribe, hers is "the Catholicity of the simple and the poor and the elderly." And as Jesus taught, she added, woe to those who would tamper with it. --Reported by Richard N. Ostling/Irondale
...Having learned the lesson of the Hitler era, the democracies responded promptly, firmly and effectively to a series of dangerous Soviet initiatives: the forcible imposition of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Korean War, Sputnik and the invasion of Afghanistan. I believe the West would act in a similar manner to protect the new democracies of Eastern Europe should these countries be threatened by renewed Russian imperialism. Because they are not currently threatened, there is no need to expand NATO now. MICHAEL MANDELBAUM, PROFESSOR Johns Hopkins University Washington...
...carefully selected young strangers, this time placed in a Winnebago and told to drive around the country looking for clues to direct them from one destination to the next. In some ways, Road Rules seems a direct response to criticisms of The Real World: though edited in the manner of its predecessor, the new show is not nearly as neatly packaged. As a result, it is not nearly as entertaining...
Like many of the new young pianists, Terrasson has speed to burn, and he can lay down impressive, swirling solos in the rushing, post-bop style in vogue today. He undergirds his right-hand notes with layers of richly configured chords in the complex manner of pianists like Bill Evans and Hank Jones. Occasionally Terrasson will use three or four notes when one would suffice. But his revitalization of the standards is what's getting him deserved notice. That's because Terrasson's style--a fertile union of jazz avant-garde and classical--is recognizably a mix of controlled aggression...