Word: mannerses
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STEVE FORBES MAY BE THE ONLY man ever to run for President who behaves as if it's bad manners to introduce himself to strangers. On the campaign trail, he approaches voters with disarming politeness. "Hi, I'm Steve Forbes," he says softly, and then extends a delicate, manicured hand...
Walesa behaved rudely toward his opponent, refusing to shake his hand during television debates and referring repeatedly to his service as Minister of Youth Affairs under the communist regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. "He is a man identified with a gang of thugs," Walesa growled. In a society that values...
ONCE IT WAS THE UN-GENRE; now it is in danger of overpopulation. We speak of the postmodern comedy of manners, in which hyperarticulate twentysomethings talk--and talk and talk--about the imminent threat of becoming thirtynothings. They are the Sons of Seinfeld, and among the brightest of their number...
An upmarket "Clerks," a less fraught "Jeffrey," "Barcelona" with a faster pulse or maybe "Friends" on PBS, "Kicking and Screaming" is a postmodern comedy of manners in which hyperarticulate twentysomethings talk about the imminent threat of becoming thirtysomethings. Writer-director Noah Baumbach's characters wear cool like a dinner jacket...
An upmarket "Clerks," a less fraught "Jeffery," "Barcelona" with a faster pulse or maybe "Friends" on PBS, "Kicking and Screaming" is a postmodern comedy of manners in which hyperarticulate twentysomethings talk about the imminent threat of becoming thirtysomethings. Writer-director Noah Baumbach's characters wear cool like a dinner jacket...