Word: complimented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conned con man in The Sting), the theater is his true territory. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he starred in The Royal Hunt of the Sun and, on Broadway, in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker and Old Times. Pinter returned the compliment by directing The Man in the Glass Booth, a play Shaw adapted from one of his own five novels. For all this, Shaw still resents what he calls "the English snobbishness about the superiority of acting onstage." He likes the challenge of building .a character on film, "where very often...
...petty grievance. But he could also be severe with a junior member of the Saud dynasty who had discredited the royal family by gambling away huge sums of money on the roulette wheels of Monaco or Las Vegas. An aide who once asked Faisal why he did not compliment people who did good work for him received a blunt answer: "It is their duty...
...popular image is that of a happy-go-lucky, slightly kooky redhead. She is in fact indomitably and infectiously humorous. But that is part of a complex cerebral nature. Because she is always thoroughly prepared and as knowledgeable about any particular opera as they, her colleagues tend to compliment her in the light of their own specialty. "She thinks of the composite work like a conductor," says Thomas Schippers, who will conduct Siege. "Her mind works like a director's mind," says Sarah Caldwell, who has directed Sills for years at the Opera Company of Boston...
...that first genuine compliment. Fisher breaks into a genuine grin. "Why thank you," he says...
...abilities as a hockey player. The scouts are all keeping a close watch on him, and The New York Times has billed him as the "fastest College hockey player in the nation." Art Kaminsky said he will be the next Dave Hynes, which may of may not be a compliment depending on how you look...