Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Boy Growing Up is Actor Emlyn Williams reciting or interpreting or impersonating Dylan Thomas' tales of his "young dog" days-at least for a while. After that, performer and storyteller triumphantly become one. On a stage with a single chair. Williams expands into a lusty segment of Wales...
As the college girlfriend, Eva Marie Saint fills what is essentially a small and not overly interesting character with an agreeable kind of sweetness and light. And Elizabeth Taylor is still the most beautiful film actress today, despite the alarming evidence of a double chin. It takes little charity to...
For 15 years, these four scholars--Murdock, Mathiessen, Miller, and Jones--strengthened the department and greatly broadened the scope of its offerings. This was done by the continual change in the character of English 170 and 270: one year 170 would become Murdock's novel course; another year it would...
Such a conflict is not visible in the effective supporting cast, however. Norman Field could not be better in a character part as the gray flannel son-in-law. He does a limited job perfectly. June Walker whines and hobbles skillfully as the girl's mother, and Nancy Pollock puts...
Resentfully shunted to the wings by Dylan's ham-acting genius, her own romantic ego yearned for the center of the stage. Ironically, Dylan's death freed her to indulge in his own kind of self-destructive self-expression. The character she re veals is a kind of...