Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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No Millennium. At any rate, the 29th G.O.P. Convention, looking up at its nominee, was not in a mood for character analysis. After a conclave made dull by the swift rout of Nixon's foes and enlivened only briefly by a spat over the vice-presidential nomination, it was time...
Conservative Trio. Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer had dropped his favorite-son role in order to back Rockefeller. But neither Shafer's influence nor his choice to nominate Rockefeller could hold the entire delegation in line. Some of the Pennsylvanians had scant respect for their Governor, privately referring to him as...
The libretto by Playwright-Film Maker Richard Foreman bristled with the same anarchic spirit. Against a background of film strips and flashing lights, it unfolded a plotless jumble of scenes that might have resulted from a collaboration by Brecht, Beckett and Buster Keaton. "Nobody looks at me," sang one character...
To Mitchum, acting is strictly journeyman stuff. "I just fall in and fall out," he claims. Not everyone is conned by his nonchalant, sleepy-eyed depreciations. "He's so good," says Deborah Kerr, "that acting is like shelling peas. That's partly because his role is so often...
Readers wary of the plush language of the "gadzooks, hussy!" school may be suspicious of the special idiom of Bring Larks. But there is no Errol Flimflam here. Keneally has devised a garbled-Gaelic speech that seems perfectly to fit the character of his protagonist who, like another gifted innocent...