Word: mannerses
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The film is filled with many such eccentric japes, all aimed at some aspect of the bourgeoisie's amorality, their scornful detachment and their resulting obsession with manners and surfaces. If the film lacks quite as much force as it might have had, that is because the targets themselves...
She associates the deterioration in appearance of college students with a general decay of manners and morality among the young people she sees on the streets and hears about from other adults. When she came to dinner at Radcliffe once last year, she objected to the public displays of affection...
The Republicans are leaving nothing to chance, including candidates' wives. A manual put out by the National Republican Congressional Committee instructs women on how to comport themselves on just about every mentionable occasion. Dress, for example: "Not too short. Be certain hemline is straight. No missing buttons." Perfume: "Not...
NICKNAME: The Laughing Cow. So dubbed by his mother when he was 13, as the first noticed his strange table manners and unique eating technique. (Never caused Steve any embarassment outside the home until last year when he attended the Big Green's Hall of Fame Dinner in Hanover and...
Ionesco's Soprano is a small play that benefits from a small theatre; its intensely malicious approach would lose all its humor if played in a bigger setting, and Davis's production took advantage of the intimacy of the Ex. Like too many contemporary comedies-of-manners. The Bald Soprano...