Word: schoolteacherish
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...offer a few nostalgic pleasures. They are made by clever craftsmen who for next to nothing provide professional gloss and a story no worse than most movies and TV shows. And if you're looking for strong B-movie stars, look no further. Shannon Tweed brings a sensible, almost schoolteacherish seriousness to her roles. Delia Sheppard (Mirror Images), who has retired from DTV to star in the Las Vegas extravaganza Splash, excelled as a naughty Brit on a Hollywood bender. Lysette Anthony (Save Me) promises prurience beneath the primness; her blond middle-class looks make her a natural to play...
...need of breaking through the clutter. The ad is designed to feature him as the easy-listening alternative to his shriller, more dour rivals. He's banking on his likability, trusting that voters have forgotten that he was the first Republican to go negative months ago. Another problem: his schoolteacherish diction seems designed to appeal to fifth-graders, and they can't vote in primaries...
...Truman began in uniform. They first became acquainted as members of Missouri's State Guard, and both were in France with the 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, when Harry Truman became commander of Battery D. (At that time Ed McKim did not like his battery commander-thought him schoolteacherish and sissified; soon he would have "gone through hell...
...Council as his sounding board. Since 1930 he has spoken often: to Communist Party Congresses, to graduates of the Red Army academies, to the public on the opening of the Moscow subway. In dry, prosaic, unemotional speeches, packed with phrases like "the idiotic disease of political carelessness," and with schoolteacherish questions and answers ("What is the essence of this attitude? The essence of this attitude is. . . .") Stalin has lectured Young Communists, delegates of the Third International, Stakhanovites, collective farmers, shock troopers, school children. But this is his first speech to the 1,143 people who make up the main governmental...
...painting. No Supreme Court, thank God, imposes upon us a blind followance of the rules of grammar. Similarly, no Hitler decrees that all painters must draw in perspective. Grammar and perspective are tools, not ends: they must be used, not worshipped. No writer wants his story to be merely schoolteacherish grammar. No painter wants his picture to be merely good architectural perspective. Both writer and painter do have a common purpose: the writer, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the reader; the painter, to amuse, to shock, to entertain the galleryite: both in-tend to jar your emotions. A fiction...