Word: eccentricism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kazan, whose Greek immigrant father was a rug importer, may have shared some of his character's social trepidations as a student at Williams and Yale. His college nickname was Gadge, short for Gadget ("I was small, compact and eccentric"), but there is nothing mechanical in his development of...
It is an art as old as Shakespeare's. With in its emotional universe are found heroic legends and pathetic domestic tragedies, as well as broad comic treatments of such eternal human vagaries as drunkenness and adultery. Immediately accessible on the level of mime, it is nevertheless highly sophisticated...
Close, as Jenny Fields, and Hurt, as Helen, also deliver solid performances when working with Williams or Lithgow. But these supporting actors fail to give their characters the magnetism Williams and Lithgow create. Garp's education, which occupies the first part of the film, gets the story off to a...
The name El Greco automatically conjures up a whole congeries of images, different images for different generations, different concepts for those of different critical persuasions. For 250 years after his death, he was dismissed as bizarre or eccentric. He could not draw. Perhaps he was even mad. Then the French...
"Eleanor in the White House had become a benison. She gave hope to the desperate and defeated, seeking out the underdog and the eccentric . . . It was as if she engaged in a dialogue that was always invested with love. . . Relationships enabled her to remain human and to plumb depths of...