Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style is "affected," Kaufmann continued, "rather than being ruthlessly honest...
...once or twice a week in hour-long sessions, usually alone. Turner prepares the agenda and spends ten to twelve hours reading background material for each session. According to a presidential aide: "Carter likes Turner's crispness, his grasp, his 'yes sir, no sir,' no-nonsense naval officer's style...
...raucous flashbacks that detail the on-again off-again courtship of the couple are even broader than the equivalent scenes in Swept Away. Meanwhile the camera is swirling about aimlessly, in empty emulation of the director's usually galvanizing style...
...reaction to hot tubs says a lot about one's reaction to California style. The East has a love-hate relationship with the fun-loving West. New Yorkers put down California culture and California parties such as the one Woody Allen parodied in Annie Hall--but deep down some of them secretly long to live that California life. The 500 people who move into California each day include an awful lot of New Yorkers...
John Wood, however, late of the Royal Shakespeare Company, gives a bravura performance as Bruhl; it's amazing what a little style, diction, and well-placed resonance can do even for a role like this. Wood resembles a jack-in-the-box out of the box, his long, gangling figure springing about beneath a jolly mop of brown hair. Best is his voice, which he uses like a virtuoso, rasping out some lines, snarling others like Burgess Meredith, or shooting up into a terribly British falsetto a la Rex Harrison. He conveys the tremendous nervous energy trapped inside him, which...