Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wound up his six-state, 4,500-mile tour of the drought-ravaged Southwestern and Great Plains states, his face was a windburned, cherry red; his eyes were worn from squinting through dust and sun; his once carefully polished brown shoes were flaked with windblown dust. From his brusque manner and his almost perpetual frown, aides and reporters sensed that he was thoroughly depressed by what he had seen...
...Bromley, near London. In opposition, he turned his acid tongue on the Socialists ("The brave new world has turned into nothing but fish and Cripps"), but was gratified to find himself no longer a rebel in his own party-it now agreed with him. Laborites detested his tart, hectoring manner. The Laborite Daily Herald snapped: "He merely gibes and sneers and ogles for cheap laughs like a fifth-rate comedian...
...Playing the North-South positions, the U.S. team bid to the correct contract, six diamonds, but in a manner that left South to play the hand. Italy's Piero Forquet, West, opened with the three of hearts, and his partner, Guglielmo Siniscalco, took the trick with the ace, returned a heart lead, the only play that could stop the small slam. West trumped, and the U.S. was down one. When Italy took over the bids went: East South West North Pass 1β 4Ω 4Δ Pass 5Δ Pass 6Δ Thus the Italians arranged to play...
...Great Man (Universal-International) is a corrosive, cynical comment on TV-Radio Row. It is directed with vigor and played with bounce, and though it is talky, the talk is amusingly semiliterate in the Madison Avenue manner. Adapted from the novel by Radioman Al Morgan, it focuses on the men who guide the stars of the TV-radio industry, holds them high to show how low they are, and growls: in this business, anything goes, even integrity-if it sells soap and toothpaste...
...However, for intermittent spurts throughout the next two weeks, sporadic bursts of prose will issue forth on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of this week, and Monday and Wednesday of the following week. Some plan to escape to the inaugural ball, others to meteorological Cuba and still others in the manner pictured below...