Word: manneredness
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The viewer is more likely to be caught between boredom and sleep. Director Rolf Thiele seems to have been trying to make like Ingmar Bergman, with his period costumes, penumbral lighting, and self-conscious composition of every frame. But style is no substitute for substance. Most of what made the...
The Mob's "co-project director," wild-haired Jerry Rubin, 29, a former Berkeley nonstudent leader, is an uncompromising radical. "We are now in the business of wholesale and wide spread resistance and dislocation of the American society," he proclaimed shortly before Dellinger's return from the Bratislava...
The danger lingers though that the board may develop a few more Captain Veres to play opposite his Billy Budd and that the marina-by-the-sanitary-canal may get no farther than the artist's sketch.Vinton W.Bacon isn't as mild-mannered as he looks. His iron hand tactics...
This month, misfortune of another kind hit Robert E. Simon Jr., the mild-mannered millionaire developer of Reston, Va., best-known and by far the most architecturally visionary of the new towns. In a corporate reshuffle, Gulf Oil Corp. took control of the financially ailing project, kicked Simon upstairs from...
French Sculptor Henri Laurens was a self-effacing man who ordinarily preferred to let his articulate friends do the talking. But one night in 1930, as Art Dealer D. H. Kahnweiler recalls it, the conversation drifted around to the beauty of Marlene Dietrich. One of the group suggested that Marlene...