Word: cad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's La Traviata. The stand began with Traviata at Tokyo's 4,000-seat NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.) Hall. With Soprano Sutherland dying rapturously as Violetta and Tenor Alexander showing a cad's remorse as Alfredo, it was one of the brightest in a long line of grand Met opening nights...
Died. Laurence Harvey, 45, veteran of more than 60 films, who first won fame in America as Joe Lampton, the ambitious cad in Room at the Top (1958); of cancer; in London. Harvey played handsome, heartless lady-killers in such hits as Butterfield 8 and Darling, and was the brainwashed political assassin of The Manchurian Candidate...
...version, Tom Brown's schooldays are briefer and follow a clear-cut development. Tom goes off to school and after a series of squabbles, battles and fights, some humiliating and some victorious, he vanquishes his oppressor, the prototypical cad, Flashman. Flashman, the school bully, was the subject of a Howard Hughes-like book of biography a few years ago, and he has endured at least as well as has Tom Brown himself as a model Victorian social leper...
...English writers -kitchen sinks and psychology." He was the funny but menacing brother in Harold Pinter's play and movie The Caretaker, the father who half mocks his helpless, brain-damaged child in the filmed version of A Day in the Life of Joe Egg, and the attractive cad in Nothing But the Best and Georgy Girl...
...Castelldefels, Spain. Though he began his career as a singer, Sanders moved easily into movies during the '30s and was quickly typecast as the unctuous villain in such pictures as Lloyds of London and The Picture of Dorian Gray. He called his autobiography Memoirs of a Professional Cad and pooh-poohed his own acting ability, but won an Academy Award in 1950 for his role as the bitchy, jaded critic in All About Eve. His suicide note was totally in character: "I am leaving because I am bored...