Word: mannerses
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Judith Martin, 44, the columnist "Miss Manners," on not wanting to kiss fellow TV talk-show guests: "It's a form of name dropping. I simply come out and say, 'How do you do?' very stiffly. It drives them crazy-and it's not without malice...
The prospect of the collapse of public manners is not merely a matter of etiquette. Society's first concern will remain major crime (see Cover Story), but a foretaste of the seriousness of incivility is suggested by what has been happening in Houston. Drivers on Houston freeways have been...
Plenty. With envenomed wit and mocking disillusionment, modern British playwrights have sung an elegy in the graveyard of lost Empire. David Hare has added a tantalizing ingredient: an infernally mysterious woman whose moods and manners displace each other as if she were trying on hats. Kate Nelligan brings her to...
Part of the problem for the short, salt-and-pepper-haired Romanov may be that he has a reputation for being imperial in more than name. When his daughter was married in 1979, Romanov is said to have ordered the Hermitage Museum to hand over Catherine the Great's...
"I really didn't believes that it was a reality that I might never play again," Cash says now," I owe the people who work at the Dillon manners" room a lot-they were a lot of help when I was going through rehabilitation. I mean I know they get...