Word: mannerize
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...unthinkable, for the surprises in the plot are one of he films manifold pleasures. Campion has said that in writing the screenplay she drew on the Bronte sisters. She is faithful to her inspiration, and the violent unleashing of passions and the consequences that follow are portrayed in a manner that does the author of Wuthering Heights proud. In the world portrayed by Campion, the characters have no defense against the passion that threatens to overtake them. They are foreigners transplanted to a strange new land where the senses rule. Life is overpowering here: the sea is wilder than...
...Cliburn Comeback '94 an incipient disaster? Far from it. The pianist's spokesman says the tour will continue, with the Rachmaninoff. And however well or poorly he plays, Cliburn will afford new audiences a chance to hear what pianism in the grand manner is all about. The nuggets in the Tchaikovsky may have been few, but they were choice, and who among his contemporaries can match him in majesty, despite his limited range? Cliburn will never be the pianist we all thought he should be. But that is our problem...
...these lines reveal the feud of sorts which emerges concerning the goings-on outside the rear window of Jeffries' Chelsea, New York apartment. Lisa Carol Freemont's theories of the murder are founded on the ideas of female ritual and manner. She claims that the missing Mrs. Thorwald would not have left without her favorite handbag which hangs on her bedpost. Nor would she have left all her jewelry at home, much less in the handbag where it would have gotten tangled-up and scratched. And she absolutely would not have left her wedding ring. So she was murdered...
...then immense price of $5,000. It was meant, he said, to show "the natural changes of Landscape and those effected by Man in his progress from Barbarism to Civilization -- to the state of Luxury -- to the vicious state or state of Destruction etc." He stirred in all manner of different cultures in this pastiche. The Pastoral or Arcadian State, for instance, has references to early Hesiodic Greece coexisting with a temple based on Stonehenge; and the climactic paintings of The Consummation of Empire and Destruction are the kind of eclectic cast-of- thousands fantasies that would later...
That harsh phrase has been used before about Diller, and all it does is add the glamour of menace to his mystique. No question that this hard-driving entrepreneur has an intimidating manner and visage ("He looks like his head is meant only to cover his brain," says one former Fox executive). But he $ wouldn't have succeeded just by being a slick shark among the entertainment industry's countless barracudas. He made his reputation by making movies and TV shows, by making things happen, by making money for men with more money...