Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a children's game in the Parker manner was sweeping Communist Hungary. Called The Road to Peace, it requires each player to move a Picasso dove around the board until it reaches a center spot marked "Peace." A throw of the dice that lands the player in a Red City (i.e., cities in the Soviet bloc, plus Tunis and Guatemala) earns him an extra turn. Green Cities (London, Paris, Caracas, etc.) carry a penalty of one turn. But woe betide the player who lights on a Black City, for he must promptly leave the game altogether...
...date, the Hitchcock shows have been adequately entertaining if not outstanding. But his grand manner and refreshing potshots at the sponsor have gained the program an impressive 29.5 Nielsen rating, a comfortable four points ahead of its NBC rival, the Goodyear-Alcoa program. For a rating that high, Sponsor Bristol-Myers is more than happy to put up with quips about its commercials...
...Cypresses Believe in God, by José Maria Gironella, was the first part of an attempt, in the grand manner, to tell the story of tortured Spain from 1931 to the present. Using a single town as a testing ground, Gironella, a former Franco soldier, succeeded remarkably well in explaining how the civil war came about, without deserting his avowed objectivity...
...striking 11 and some Labor M.P.s were still straggling into the House of Commons committee room when Clement Attlee rose from his place and said in his most curt, acid-drop manner: "Before proceeding to the main business for which you have been called, I have a statement to make." Wasting no words, 72-year-old Clem Attlee resigned as leader of the Labor Party, sat down...
Magnani, however, was much more than a manner. What she seemed she was: an earthy, emotional Eve with lusty appetites. Her private life was a steaming contusion. In 1935 she married Goffredo Aiessandnm, a movie director. One day she trailed him to a rendezvous with another woman, hinted her displeasure by ramming her car into his. They were separated. Anna loves her son Luca now 13 and stricken with polio, with a fierce protective passion that motivates much of her acting. She is grimly determined to leave him rich when she dies, and she probably will: under the soft schedule...