Word: stylishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retired Creed, of all people, replaces Mickey and tries to teach Rocky the new boxing method he must acquire to beat Lang-quick, stylish and black. Rocky is slow to pick it up and agonizes in self-pity. It remains for Adrian to deliver the ultimatum: go for it-the Rocky motto-or give up the rematch...
Condon's stylish prose and rich comedic gift once again spice a moral sensibility that has animated 16 novels since The Manchurian Candidate appeared in 1962. If wit and irony could somehow neutralize villainy, the novelist would make a fine FBI director. Prizzi's Honor, like most of his books, comes sometimes too close to the truth for comfort, and it has what many may regard as a shocking end. On the other hand, the crime family survives, its billions and precious omerta intact. And that, Richard Condon points out, makes it "the all-American success story...
...Brown has spruced-up the longer songs with clever shticks at one side of them: language-lab subtitles for a scene sung in Italian and a caricature-in-process to accompany a song about feminine perfection. For another, it's never tiresome just to stare at Martha Eddison's stylish costumes; they have a funky, continental allure rarely seen outside the pages of a fashion magazine and a few tables in the Adams House dining hall...
...Armani dropped the lapels and made the softer tailored look." Says another English designer, David Emanuel, who with his wife Elizabeth whipped up the Princess of Wales' wedding dress: "I feel good when I put on an Armani jacket because the cut and balance are right. So easy, stylish, uncluttered. His distinguishing mark is clearly his tailoring." Adds the innovative American designer Norma Kamali, "I don't know a lot about Armani. But when I say to a guy he looks great, 99% of the time it's Armani he turns out to be wearing...
...note of laughter never quite returned. Some wondered if it ever would. But the talk this spring is once again of hopeful rookies and aging veterans, an endless line streaming in and straggling out. Born hitters who can do it all and hurt you in a lot of ways. Stylish lefthanders who throw aspirin tablets and wear CAN'T MISS tags if they stay out of the hitters' wheelhouses. Joy is back in Mudville...