Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small modern house in a pinewoods about four miles outside of Plains, Ga. Most of the passengers, men of wealth or power, were more accustomed to traveling in limousines or private planes. But when they received the Democratic candidate's call, they willingly went along with his studied style of being just an informal man of the people who had summoned members of the Establishment to brief him about world and national problems on his terms and on his turf. After all, here was a chance to influence future national policy and perhaps qualify for a high...
...speculation about Herbert. The dust jacket states cryptically that he is an exnewspaperman, and shows a large bearded man smiling rather disdainfully at the camera. One hopes that Herbert will quit the pop anthropology of Children of Dune with its pretentious Carlos-Castaneda-like musings for the more insightful style that marked the first book, and chalk up Children of Dune as a book that paid for the groceries...
...public when he made The Great Leap of Faith in print and endorsed Jimmy Carter two months ago in Rolling Stone. [MORE]'s piece on the Thompson conversion not only exposes Carter's conscious seduction process, but also happens to be the finest parody ever of the bent Thompson style...
This directorial style seems to spring naturally from the man, assuming that Eastwood's screen character, in its mature, or post-spaghetti, formulation is a true reflection of his sensibility. The flat, quiet voice, the understated grace of his movements, the sweet almost boyish manner, contrasting so curiously with the violent deeds he performs, have a remarkable way of gaining sympathetic interest not so much through command as through insinuation. In a western, where spacious landscapes and historical distance seem to soften the impact of his brutal methods of problem solving, Eastwood is not simply a symbol...
Died. Mikhail Menshikov, 73, congenial Soviet Ambassador to Washington from 1957 to 1962; in Moscow. Menshikov undertook to thaw out the cold war-at least on the diplomatic cocktail circuit-with his informal, urbane style. "Smiling Mike," the nickname his sociability earned him, helped arrange Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the U.S. in 1959 and the Vienna talks between President Kennedy and Khrushchev...