Word: mannerism
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...company e-mail captured by the government, read aloud in a courtroom and printed around the world would be put off electronic messaging for life. But Gates the author adores the medium. His ideal business model has management inundating its underlings with e-mails in a free-and-easy manner that would give some corporate lawyers a heart attack. "There's no doubt that e-mail flattens the hierarchical structure of an organization," he writes. "It encourages people to speak...
Although university presses tend to be more lenient with their ventures than commercial presses, conflicts remain between editor and author--in part, as Kugel posits, because of shifts in manner of publishing scholarly work...
...This particular position was the most important to fill, and it has been done in a very expeditious manner, "Armini said. "We are very pleased that the position was filled in three months...
...Church of England, Racing Demon, and also from a bold 1996 lecture Hare gave at Westminster Abbey called "When Shall We Live?" about the bankruptcy of religious belief. From writing political plays that verge on the lecture, that is, Hare has decided simply to lecture in an actorly manner. "I find the strategies of fiction more and more tiresome," he explains. "I cannot watch Hollywood films, which I know have been written to a three-act structure that's been taught in class at UCLA." Though he has made forays into Hollywood in the past--including the film version...
Shoshanna insists that her Seinfeld connection is not the reason for her success. "I don't link it with my past at all," she says. "Maybe you think that's naive." Her breezy manner turns prickly whenever Seinfeld enters the conversation. When a correspondent for CBS' 48 Hours, interviewing her for an upcoming show, popped a question about him, she stormed off with the camera still rolling...