Word: mannerize
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Meet Lisa, Nancy and Beth (not their real names). In January, Lisa, 42, made contact with a man by way of the electronic bulletin board. Entranced with his terminal manner, Lisa allowed their e-mail relationship to progress to "voice-level" -- that is, they called each other and soon were satisfying < their mutual lust in steamy phone sex that sometimes lasted up to four hours. The bills were huge. He lived on the East Coast, she on the West. Lisa thought she was in love, and she believed he felt the same...
...harsh, discordant music grids, clanks, reverberates and buzzes in a manner reminiscent of an auto mechanic's garage--at least, one in which a chain-saw-wielding maniac runs amok. The only unifying theme to this eclectic collage of songs appears to be disharmony, distortion and above all a disturbing sense of disjointedness...
Welcoming that challenge also means dealing equitably with groups with which was disagree. So we were troubled by the manner in which the Harvard Foundation bestowed grants to student organizations this year. The race relations office proffered funding to the rag, a feminist magazine and to HQ, a gay-issues magazine. But the office, whose mandate is to award grants that promote interracial understanding last year denied funding to Peninsula, an often-inflammatory right-wing publication whose editors were planning an issue devoted to race relations. Again, the conflict between diversity and open expression became a matter of campus debate...
Borrowers who prefer not to finance their home purchase in the traditional manner may choose to mortgage their home through a credit union...
...long as each school follows the letter of the law and obtains the approval of the budget office and in cases of debt-financed projects or work above a certain price, the approval of the Corporation, they are allowed a great deal of leeway in the manner in which they obtain construction work...