Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That exchange says three things about the actor, hereafter identified as Richard Dreyfuss, the star of Jaws and two of this year's best films, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Goodbye Girl: 1) he is brash, 2) he is never at a loss for words and 3) he knows what he likes when he sees it-he and the girl, Lucinda Valles, 23, have been together, off and on, ever since they met in a Manhattan restaurant three years...
Richard Dreyfuss commands top roles, top billing and top dollar in Hollywood, but it has always been hard to accept him as a top movie actor. Though his brash energy holds the screen, Dreyfuss has built most of his characters from a single emotion-an intense comic anguish. At his best-in American Graffiti, Duddy Kravitz and Close Encounters-he can be ruefully witty and vulnerable. His jittery neuroticism keeps an audience guessing whether he might really fall apart. But there is also a persistent feeling that he is hiding behind a pat routine. When Dreyfuss portrays the same boyish...
...Washington, the ten half-hour shows-which will be available for use in schools after their ten-week PBS run-combine the high orchestral quality of Leonard Bernstein's celebrated children's concerts with spoofs inspired by Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Their purpose, says brash Host Murry Sidlin, 37, is to create consciousness raising in music. Sidlin, who conducts the National Symphony Orchestra in the series, believes "young people are visually sophisticated but often musically illiterate. By using TV we can help the eye lead...
...most sensationalistic and best-known novel, Portnoy's Complaint. The plots of both books are quite similar-two bright, young Jewish men who have an overwhelming obsession with sex. The Professor of Desire, however, is much more sophisticated and accomplished. While David first appears in the book as a brash, precocious adolescent, he develops and matures throughout the course of the novel, whereas Portnoy's Complaint is the story of retarded adolescence. The explicitness and concern with sexual identity remain in The Professor of Desire but Roth is less intent on trying to shock the reader through blatant exhibitionism...
Mazo does so with particular flair. Without being too gossipy, his brash, kaleidoscopic view of the NYCB's Spring 1973 season is as thorough as a documentary. Mazo captured what would never have been spoken before a camera. His style is chatty: George Balanchine, founder and ballet master of the Company and probably the world's finest choreographer, is "Mr.B.", after the fashion of the dancers; choreographer Jerome Robbins ("the resident monster") is "Jerry...