Word: mannerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aquino's lackluster speaking style is counterbalanced by her running mate Laurel. He has the kind of folksy, joke-telling manner that Filipino audiences love. The vice-presidential nominee usually serves as Aquino's lead-off speaker, warming up crowds for the less practiced message to follow...
...should've seen the students," I told them, describing the pall which hung over the campus after the news of the catastrophe had spread, the manner in which an Oriental girl burst out crying when a picture of Christa McAuliffe flashed on the screen, the lounges filled with teachers and students and members of the staff: Attentive. Hypnotized. Heartbroken. Spellbound...
Nearly everyone involved in the Leverett House grate incident would agree with Ms. Martin's underlying theme that the general problems of homelessness and student security are the central issues of the controversy. My differences lie with the inconsistency of Ms. Martin's arguments and the manner in which she portrays the problem as a "no-win situation", adding that "something must be sacrificed, either the vents for the homeless or the [question of] students' security." This attitude creates an "us vs. them" scenario that leads to nothing more than callous treatment of the homeless...
...light-hearted cinematic fluff, in Yorkin's Divorce: American Style starring Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke and Jason Robards. Those were the good old days, when a husband and wife would have a fight, get divorced on the spur of the moment, get remarried in a similarly shot-gun manner, then realize that they had just made the biggest mistake of their lives and rectify it by getting back together with their own true love...
...retain its important truth, which is an emotional one. This has been accomplished in two ways. The film's viewpoint is not the writer's, who in effect saw her subject from the air. The camera is firmly on the ground, looking for close-ups. The movie's manner is not the author's either. It is concerned with restoring what she left out: factual (as opposed to spiritual) biography of a conventional kind, drawn from Thurman's book, a study of Finch Hatton's life and Dinesen's letters, which are altogether more open than her book. Where...