Word: clearheadedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But Ripley is more stubborn than he seems, especially when he realizes that he's suddenly living the life he always wanted. Highsmith's book keeps the audience engaged just by introducing clearheaded, elegant Tom Ripley. He's fascinating because we know what he's capable of, which is just...
MY FAIR LADY: Playwright George Bernard Shaw's clearheaded comedy Pygmalion (1913) ends with Eliza Doolittle leaving her mentor Henry Higgins to pursue a life of her own. To stymie efforts to tag on a happy ending, Shaw went so far as to write an afterword in which he married...
The confusions it could impose on you if you were young, fresh from an upcountry village and suddenly exposed to the subversive stimulations of Trinity College, Dublin, are the subject of the ingratiating, clearheaded, coming-of-age comedy that director Pat O'Connor and writer Andrew Davies have fashioned from...
So why were 300,000 Lebanese civilians fleeing for their lives? After five days of nonstop bombardment, army Colonel Ali Fawaz, who administers a small ( hospital in Tibnin, a Lebanese village just 7 1/2 miles from the Israeli border, was bleary-eyed but still clearheaded. "The Syrians and Iranians," he...
Kinky or not, Owen is clearheaded about house behavior. "When a new family moves into a house," he says truthfully, "water begins to drip from the chandelier." The new householder either pays local artisans or ruins things himself. Owen doesn't exactly tell you how, but he gives you enough...