Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When I saw you again in my junior year I barely recognized you. Petro was still there but there were so many new faces and that winning style of yours just did not seem the same...
...woman, a stylist, darts up, makes an odd little ducking gesture that may be obeisance, and slips a bracelet on the racing sloop's left arm. Photographer Seltzer, a big, bald, hard-looking man, lies on his belly, chest soothed by a pillow, and begins to talk in the style parodied in Blow-Up: "Good, good, wonderful, great...
...elusiveness. For a few years she has been trying to retrain her lush mezzo voice to sing soprano roles. The strategy seems wrong; by now the registers of her voice are as separated as the drawers of a desk. Only near the end did her singing match her style...
...identify the survivors. He does so with both compassion and dark wit, and the result has been a remarkable string of films that document the changing mores of an exasperating decade. Indeed, Mazursky's social report age is so accurate that one can almost ignore his failures of style and storytelling...
...bitterness and sense of inevitability about "the intelligent and the corrupt," the Mullers who talk calmly about final solutions and the agents who plan the murder of a colleague between mouthfuls of smoked trout. This may be familiar stuff, but after half a century of providing his special style of morose entertainment, Greene remains working proof that for writers, unlike athletes, the reflexes are the last...