Word: characterizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same problems with characterization punctuate Blumenfeld's performance as the magician. His Jewish-German accent, the only distinguishing trait of his character, quickly becomes cumbersome. Although his part is well-written, Blumenfeld's caricatured accent limits his portrayal, reducing the magician to a stereotype...
With the exception of Bridges, all the actors turn in fine performances. Complementing Sally Field's tour-de-force, Pat Bingle in the role of her father deftly shades his performance so that it explains not only his character but also where Norma Rae got her fire-cracking sparkle. The...
Desaulniers' succession to the Hemenway Gym throne merits a word or two on his predecessor, John Havens. The power-hitting, loose-playing Arnie Palmer of squash gave the Harvard team a character of its own and left his mark on the Ivy League. During his sometimes-brilliant, often-frustrating four...
An archetype of the current genre is Happy People, by Columbia Psychology Professor Jonathan Freedman. It promises to reveal "what happiness is, who has it and why." Freedman analyzes the results of both popular surveys and casual interviews and also attempts, he says, "to present what we, as social scientists...
A proliferation of less ambitious studies and surveys, some of them amounting to market research, has occurred in the past few years. The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research conducted a nationwide study of income and education as determinants of happiness. The advertising firm Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn...