Word: chameleonic
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What is the message of the college admissions process? Perhaps we should tech young people that it is better to be a chameleon than to be true to oneself. Learn to size up what a particular situation calls for and adjust your colors accordingly. My personal opinion is that it is ultimately fragmenting and self-defeating. How does a 17 year-old who succeeds by being a changeling ever learn who she is? As long as universities encourage this behavior they are not breeding great thinkers or healthy people...
Albums that feature cover versions of other people's songs seem to be both the easiest and the most difficult to pull off. With her latest album, Medusa, chameleon-like pop diva Annie Lennox succeeds brilliantly in transforming old songs into new works...
DIED. DONALD PLEASENCE, 75, stage and screen star; in St.-Paul-de-Vence, France. A chameleon-like character actor who could be as meek as he could be malevolent, he was 40 when he won international notice as the repellent Davies in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. But his widest audiences were reached in more popular fare like The Great Escape (1963), Halloween (1978) and the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967) in which he played cat-loving archvillain Blofeld...
...York City, she went to Europe to lead a reclusive life after the success in 1950 of her first novel, Strangers on the Train, which Alfred Hitchcock made into a movie. Highsmith's most famous character was Tom Ripley, an opportunistic and amoral gentleman-murderer. DIED. DONALD PLEASENCE, 75, chameleon-like British character actor who could be meek or malevolent in his stage and screen roles; in St.-Paul-de-Vence, France. Pleasence first gained an international reputation as the compellingly repellent Davies in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. But his widest audiences were reached in more popular fare such...
Last year Chang and Shapiro were involved in an abortive attempt to found the Chameleon, a female final club...