Word: demeanor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slight Southern softening, and though she tries to shrill, her slummy "Garn..." resonates with upper-class tonality. You can't make a sow's ear out of a silk purse. Only in scenes when Eliza is supposed to be furious with Higgins does Tompsett cast of her placid demeanor, and then she sizzles: her eyes splash cyanide when she seethes, "Just You Wait, 'enry 'iggins." She cannot sustain her fury, however; when Higgins dishes strawberry tarts to the bird and not to her, she looks only mildly miffed. Not even Tompsett's physical ploys, such as stalking off the stage...
McEnroe, a native of Queens, exploded onto the scene by making it to the semis at Wimbledon two years ago. At 20, he has not bothered to assume the icy demeanor of a Borg of the gentlemanly habits of Smith or Ashe. He plays like he's still on the junior circuit, where there are usually no linesmen to handle disputes, no crowd to jump on his every comment, no reporters to write columns like this...
FICTION: A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul ∙ Collected Stories, Paul Bowles ∙ Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame ∙ Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙ Sophie's Choice, William Styron ∙ Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙ The Living End, Stanley Elkin
Naipaul ∙Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame ∙Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Sophie's Choice, William Styron Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙The Living End, Stanley Elkin NONFICTION: Blood of Spain, Ronald Eraser ∙I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann and Samuel Charters ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Neoconservatives, Peter Steinfels ∙The White Album, Joan Didion ∙When Memory Comes, Saul Friedlander
FICTION: A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul ∙ Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame ∙ Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙ Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Sophie's Choice, William Styron Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙ The Living End, Stanley Elkin...