Word: fidget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most important, she became a student of Uta Hagen's and later a member of the Actors Studio, soaking up the Method, which requires that each character should be built motive by motive from the inside. She became the Studio's virtual salutatorian. She could fidget, whine and hesitate like no other actress before her. Her pauses were unmatched. When she played the spinsterish heroine in Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke, she made an off-Broadway hit out of a Broadway flop, but she also kept the audience in their seats till after midnight. Director Jose Quintero...
...side on Copenhagen's public buildings; crowds cheered lustily as the betrothed appeared on the balcony of Amalienborg Castle. Even publicity-hating King Frederik IX relented and let the couple pose for a group of 42 photographers. "Take it easy," he told the pair as they began to fidget before the popping flashbulbs. "You've got plenty of time, so just relax." No date has been set for the wedding, but it probably won't be until early next year. The Princess must first finish the tenth grade...
...attend to your simple needs (Cousin Thelma wasn't at ali pleased with those personalized kitchen matches, you will remember). What, then, is to be done? Well, how about a record for once? We've heard 'em all, and if you'll sit very still, and promise not to fidget, we'll tell you what you want to hear...
...behave as if they night were indeed in warm midsummer. Their play, although it is not really a complicated one, needs some subtlety and a good deal of spirit to succeed, especially under conditions in which the actors often have to shout to be heard and to fidget to keep from freezing...
...Lucy, the maid, as an engaging, tough little tramp, and Shelia Stannard (Alithea), in spite of some awkward moments, makes an art form out of blandness. Tam Miller as Margery Pinchwife is magificently dumb, and leaps around the stage like an oversexed gnome. As for Emilie Rahman as Lady Fidget--boy, that Emilie Rahman. She is the best thing in the play as the wise-cracking, tough-talking Lady-always-in-waiting...