Mrs P, as most called her, was not one to follow fads, whether in music or her mode of dress, and retired in the mid-Eighties just as the dancehall genre was taking over.
In her new mode, her structures drifted apart.
Who is being trained in her unique mode of communication?
In her autobiographical mode Ms. Pierson recounts her efforts to learn to ride and to listen to horses.
In her introverted mode, Julee Cruise wafted her voice through the songs of Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch's soundtrack composer.
Since Cass is played by Sarah Jessica Parker in her bubbliest mode, it is hard to argue with this description.
The second, Madame Louise Anjelica Hustonn in her grifter mode), is a haughty, witchlike peddler in a horse-drawn carriage, hawking an alcoholic cure-all.
"Cerements," an old word for burial cloth, is Robinson in her Melvillean mode, and is one of many moments in her earlier work when she sounds like the antiquarian Cormac McCarthy.
Stanwyck, as a reporter in wide-shouldered career-gal suits, manages to be as warm and as ardent as when she's in her cynical mode, cooking up a threatened suicide by a fake Everyman to boost circulation, as she is when she's in her chastened and soft-hearted mode.
And in a sense she was working in her signature mode, confronting a tangle of issues — from the political to the existential to the metaphysical — in terms that suggested elegy along with satire.
