Word: mannerses
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In the Tennessee Country (Knopf; 226 pages; $21) by Peter Taylor, the writer of shrewd, laconic short stories whose previous novel won the Pulitzer Prize, revels in such delineations. He writes of a society grounded in family and memory of the Civil War. Nathan's father was named for Confederate...
The other Rebel Highway films hunker down to more serious matters of turf marking and pubescent angst. Motorcycle Gang revs up real terror, as some wild ones kidnap a restless girl and her dad gets really mad. Roadracers is a hyperkinetic assault on good manners. Dragstrip Girl, a Cal-Mex...
Zemeckis says, without apparent irony: "I imagined Norman Rockwell painting the baby boomers." And that is Gump: a social tragedy sanitized for a Saturday Evening Post cover. It celebrates innocence, acceptance and, not least, good manners in a tale set in the very era when Americans were supposed to have...
1954...Dior's A-line dress has swept Europe and the United States, charm bracelets are in and the precursor to the pill box hat Jackie Kennedy Onuses made so famous is smaller here and squatter. Manners reign supreme and the neuroses Arthur Miller wrote about are running rampant, but...
Kingsley Amis skewers bad manners and bad poetry 58