Word: mannerize
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...brave movie star who knowingly subverts the values implicit in his own image. It is a brave director who will guide him through a performance that satirizes the grand manner of one of recent movie history's most revered auteurs and, in the end, devastates the great man's macho posturings. Obviously, Clint Eastwood, who both plays John Wilson -- read that as John Huston -- and directs White Hunter, Black Heart, has more gumption than, say, Dirty Harry Callahan. After all, the short-fused San Francisco cop only had to face down outrageous criminals. Having committed this iconoclastic vision of Huston...
...Governor's announcement was a direct challenge to Mayor David Dinkins, who was already dodging complaints that his quiet, cautious manner -- deemed an asset during last fall's election campaign -- was not well suited to leading the fight against crime. With budgetary constraints frustrating his efforts to fulfill a campaign promise to expand the force, the mayor consistently refused to commit himself to a specific number before receiving a manpower report from police commissioner Lee Brown on Oct. 1. Cuomo's address, and a growing sense of crisis, forced Dinkins at last to announce that an additional...
Your apology to Patterson for falsely describing him as a Marxist is, of course, a red (!) herring. It is the racism of the review that is offensive, and it is that aspect that needs to be addressed in a more forthcoming manner. So how about a franker apology, not only in print to us all, but to Professor Patterson in person. Henderson Professor of the Psychology of Personality Brendan A. Maher...
...claimed Franklin had "insufficient capital and operated in an unsound and unsafe manner." But the owners of the S&L argued that the OTS made serious accounting errors in interpreting Franklin's financial statements. Federal judge Dale Saffels ordered Franklin handed back to its owners, but regulators won a temporary stay of that order from a Denver federal appeals court. A victory for Franklin would undoubtedly hearten the 25 other S&Ls with similar suits against the OTS. And it would give new force to the contention that the agency has at times been overzealous in taking over thrifts that...
...shelf of a neighborhood grocery. That same day Vander Beatty, a former political power in Brooklyn attempting a comeback by running for district leader, was shot to death in his campaign headquarters. The prime suspect, according to police, was a longtime friend who was allegedly angry over the manner in which a lawyer who had been recommended by Beatty had handled his alimony case...