Word: mannerizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language of modern architecture has been immense. But little sign of that could be seen in its capital, Washington. Where were the modern designs to rival the dominant idioms of 18th century Georgian and 19th century Beaux-Arts by the Potomac? There was not much to see. The preferred manner, in a low-horizon city dominated by L'Enfant's neoclassical plan, was Beaux-Arts thinly covered with a "modernist" veneer: the cake minus the icing. From the postwar office blocks to the alternately coarse and mincing frigidity of the 1971 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the past...
...wins her briefly, loses her, then wins her for good at the last freeze frame. But the formula remains the same: earnestness, good nature and sophomoric romanticism substituted for wit, intelligence and style, with Brooks' music smeared over everything, like gooey frosting. The picture is shot in the manner of the TV commercials Brooks used to do, and his people display all the nuances we've come to expect from citizens who really care about the shine on their kitchen floors...
...male figures in the latter represent two contradictory sides of Chaplin's nature, which he tried to gloss over. Purviance's first love is an artist, but rather a bourgeois one. His mother shares his garret with him, and his paintings, like his dress and manner, are rather staid. He sentimentalizes virtue, just as Chaplin did in the soppier passages of his own work. As the documentary makes clear, Chaplin himself aspired all his life to the kind of stability this stiff youth aspires to. In his marriage to Oona O'Neill, which produced a family...
...have been able to verify fewer than 100 European deaths among the more than 2000 Europeans in Kolwezi. And at least 20 Europeans may have been executed by Zairean army troops, not by the rebels. Ottoway reports that the victims, both African and European, "died in a mostly haphazard manner," singly and in small groups, with "no overall design for the killing or even the saving of lives, either by rebels or Zairean soldiers." He writes that many of the deaths may have resulted from the crossfire between rebels and French paratroopers, and that rebel commanders acted in many instances...
...year absence, makes the chic middle-aged murder suspect an aloof yet touching figure: she always retains her bourgeois hauteur, but we see the pain of her predict ament in the slight flickering of her large blue eyes. Reggiani is a delight. With his hound-dog face and wry manner, he is every bit as amusingly world-weary as Happy New Year's hero, Lino Ven tura. No wonder all the other characters openly adore...