Word: mannerize
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...greatly to John Singleton Copley's clients in Boston that Sir Joshua Reynolds praised Copley's early work. But neither Europe nor England paid attention to Cole. From across the Atlantic he would have seemed a mere provincial, fluctuating between derivative Claudian pastorals and apocalyptic religious allegory in the manner of John ("Pandemonium") Martin...
Unlike the old Soviet elite, who led quiet, if profoundly hypocritical, lives of sequestered privilege while paying lip service to Marxist notions of egalitarianism, the noviye bogati seem determined to part with their newfound wealth in the most ostentatious manner possible. "Russians who come to me want to spend their money and want it to show," says Mats Lofgren, a Swedish furniture dealer. "They won't waste their time on functional furniture. I show them the gold-plated faucets and ornate lamps, and they take it. I had a Russian come in recently who announced, 'My friend just spent...
...debate is just beginning. "It is a very deep ethical and social dilemma," says Dr. Harvey Fineberg, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, "and fraught with all manner of emotional responses." One thing is certain: each year about 1,800 newborns in the U.S. are infected with HIV. If AZT can safely reduce that number, the pressure for routine testing will only rise...
...bite him. Old and close to death, the doctor would rather live life as a tyrannical werewolf than die. With his old wrinkled hand held limply in front of his face, the audience is held in suspense as to whether Will will actually bite him. In his gentlemanly manner, Will politely confesses that he cannot do it. Understanding but disappointed, the doctor lets him keep the medallion and sends...
Snyder's high-volume, high-profile style produced profits that were just about average for the industry, but his personality created serious turnover problems. An arrow of a man, with a loud, deep voice and a blunt manner, he underscored every bottom line with outbursts of temper. When Martin Davis took over Paramount (then Gulf & Western) 10 years ago, the two dictatorial bosses began a festering, not quite open feud. Snyder is a buccaneer, better suited to being an entrepreneur than an employee. Says Joan Didion: "This is the game he wanted to play; he played it for 30 years...