Word: mannerize
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...discuss issues relating to gay and lesbian treatment in law enforcement. In recent months, committee members have held a number of "sit-down" meetings to talk with police officers, and Johnson says he believes that if more arrests take place, they will likely be handled in a very different manner...
...just four when Saigon fell, and few of the youths playing soldiers were even in their teens -- the cast was instructed through film and speakers about the mood of those times. But the creators emphasize to all who will listen that Miss Saigon is not about politics. Their edgy manner and the almost rehearsed- sounding consistency of their rhetoric suggest a fear that political seriousness might turn audiences off -- and that an unflinching look at bad memories from Vietnam may be wildly inappropriate just after the buoying triumph of the gulf...
...criminal. In fact, he is a brilliant Renaissance literature scholar and talented administrator who has just been named the 26th president of Harvard. What would cause a man who is about to follow in the footsteps of Charles Eliot and A. Lawrence Lowell to behave in such a manner? The answer lies in the nature of Harvard's presidential selection process, which has earned a well-deserved reputation as unnecessarily exclusionary and almost obsessively secretive...
...disadvantage in putting on such a well-known play is that the audience's expectations are high, and they have pre-formed notions as to how the show should be interpreted. Weinstein has a knack for staging Grease in both a fresh and recognizable manner. He gives the audience what they are looking for in a production that adheres closely to the exuberent musical comedy that we all know and love...
...benefit of a small theater is that the restricted space allows the actors' facial expressions to be seen easily. This makes the action more believable. Unfortunately, the emphasis on gestures and expressions tends to overshadow the dialogue. The lines are delivered in a rushed and awkward manner, particularly in the beginning of the play...