Word: creator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Driver, the elegantly upholstered movie mogul in The Last Tycoon, or the jazzed-up saxophone player in the newly released New York, New York. For that matter, none of these characters looked much like another-except for the aura of intensity under tight control that they share with their creator. De Niro's eerie ability to fine-tune his diverse screen appearances while blurring his own may have added to his undeserved reputation as a Garboesque recluse. De Niro does not avoid the public; the public generally does not recognize...
Died. Roy Crane, 75, comic-strip cartoonist and creator of Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer; in Orlando, Fla. His swashbuckling grocery clerk, Washington Tubbs II, is credited with bringing adventure to the bland funny papers of the '20s when he fell in love with Tango the tiger tamer. Though other artists adopted Tubbs and Friend Captain Easy, Crane collaborated on Navy Pilot Buz until his death...
Kushnik is, however, a self-conscious creator. At a recent recital, Kushnik remarked, "Sounds come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and the function of the composer is to put them together and balance them in order to evoke some response from the listener...
...because of professional rustiness, or the need for more time at home, or even because teaching jobs were hard to find. Says she: "I had devalued myself. I had become a victim of the process that makes a homemaker feel she is worth nothing and her role as creator of the next generation is not important...
...trusts disciples, but it's not difficult to understand why he attracts them. In many ways, Frye is the consummate humanist. A vigorous exponent of the autonomy of art, he has brought to its study a quasi-scientific rigor. A devotee of the imagination, he exemplifies the critic as creator, combining a vast erudition with a penchant for clear and orderly exposition...