Word: flawless
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...Welles himself summed up the weekend perfectly, thirty years ago. He was on the set of The Third Man, giving his flawless performance as Harry Lime. The movie's producer, Alexander Korda, was getting on his nerves. Orson reportedly said to him, "I wish the Pope would make you a cardinal, Alex." "Why a cardinal?" Kroda wondered. "Because then," Welles retorted, "we'd only have to kiss your ring...
...University of Maryland and become a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he has produced a series of critical analyses of almost every federal department. Colleagues regard him as witty and gregarious, particularly after a few beers, when he can be persuaded to sing Lilli Marlene in flawless German...
...play of magnitude lends itself to varying interpretations. The original Big Daddy, Burl Ives, portrayed him as a man with a sensual lust for life. In 1974's Broadway revival, Fred Gwynne brought out his cruel, vindictive side. With a flawless Southern accent that testifies to his lifelong perfection of craft, Olivier plays Big Daddy as the feudal lord of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the Valley Nile," a man born with the habit of imperial command...
...course, he has two perfect actors for it in Gielgud and Richardson, and Director Peter Hall never misses a nuance or a climax. Whenever Gielgud and Richardson play together, the evening becomes memorable. It was so in David Storey's Home and it is so now. Flawless timing, intuitive ensemble work, a mastery of gesture from antic toe to arching eyebrow, and marvelously contrasting voices, Gielgud's rippling clarinet and Richardson's booming bass viol-they have it all. May some guardian angel of drama protect and preserve them in our midst...
Charles de Gaulle liked to portray an image seven feet tall, the incarnation of France, flawless. But he was addicted to at least one small sin, according to former British Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson. During a TV interview, Wilson recalled a visit with the French President back in the 1960s. When De Gaulle began talking about his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, Wilson asked him what he did there during the quiet evenings. "I knew he read westerns," said Wilson, "but in addition to that, he said he played patience [soli-taire]. I asked...