Word: bookishly
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...seems like a system which would help those judges with the best judgment--in other words, those judges who need help least. In any case, it seems very unconvincing that juries should exist to offer a sheltered, bookish judge the services of their collective street smarts...
Ward's landlady, Dr. Willet (Kristen Johnson), opens the play, describing how she grew to know, love and lose Ward. Dr. Willet delivers her monologue perched n a loft and as she progresses, lights dawn on Ward in his bookish room. In another corner of the stage, a third figure becomes apparent. Bald and stocky, this figure (John Sharian) represents at various points a demon, Ward's grandfather, and a cyborg. He even barks to out of site vampires. The characters vie for attention in the small, steep theater which only seats 27 people...
...motoring through Rome, savoring the barren landscape, stopping at the spot where Pasolini was murdered, singing along with an outdoor band and looking -- in his beard, dark glasses and black shirt -- like an anarchist who has joined the Ricky Ricardo Orchestra. Visit the Italian islands with Nanni and his bookish friend (Renato Carpentieri) as they see their friends utterly dominated by bratty kids. Get lost in the labyrinth of Italian medicine as Nanni consults dozens of doctors to discover the source of a skin rash, only to learn troubling truths about his body and their expertise...
...game-show audiences were riveted to their sets during Charles Van Doren's 14-week reign on NBC's Twenty-One. The bookish champ became an unlikely national hero -- until it was revealed that he had been fed answers to the show's often obscure questions, a scandal dramatized in the new film Quiz Show. Could today's intellectuals handle actual questions asked of Van Doren? Without cheating? Time put these five to the test...
...Experts give him high marks for providing ample credit to the financial community and thereby helping overcome disasters ranging from the crash of '87 to the near collapse of the banking industry when it was saddled in the late 1980s with bad real estate loans. Notwithstanding his bookish appearance, Greenspan has long been a fixture on the Washington cocktail circuit, where he has squired such high- profile and politically connected companions as ABC newswoman Barbara Walters and NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell...