Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mouth an elongated O of wonder, his arms moving in ritualistic, angular figurations. The music seemed to course through the long, flexible arc of his brown body like water through a garden hose; occasionally a soft cry broke through his half-open lips. Thus 6 ft.-6 in. Geoffrey Holder-at 26 a solo dancer of the Metropolitan Opera, successful painter, actor, singer and choreographer-last week made his debut as director-star of his own calypso show, and introduced slightly dazed Brooklyn audiences to his sinewy, fiercely virile dance style...
...Negro father, a "salesman with brains" in Port of Spain, Trinidad, who said, "If you put the tools in front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." One day daddy Holder went out and blew the rent money on a piano. Pretty soon Geoffrey's older brother, Boscoe, began to bang at the keyboard in the evenings, and Geoffrey copied him. When Boscoe developed a taste for painting and then for dancing, Geoffrey copied him again. Endowed with natural rhythm and a body as hard and flat as a cricket bat, Geoffrey left school...
...Geoffrey, Carmen and their ten-week-old son now live in a Manhattan apartment with a fancy piano (mother-of-pearl inlay) and a large plaster statue of the Virgin. There Geoffrey sits up at night (he often sleeps only three hours) turning out ardently colored canvases, for which he gets from...
Actually you're partly correct, but for the whole story we must go back one or two years to 1856, in "Indja," where Flynn, as noble, good-hearted, brave and true, in a word, English, Major Geoffrey Vicars, skirmishes baggy-trousered local rebels, goes panther shooting, or was it cheetahs, with the treacherous Surat Khan, and loses the love of Olivia DeHaviland, whose lower lip quivers almost continuously in the role of some English general's tender-sweet daughter. The charge, rung in as a sort of last resort in the last ten minutes of the film, climaxes an hour...
...Wyndham Lewis; A Portrait of the Artist as the Enemy," Geoffrey Wagner presents an unintentional obituary and a general analysis of Lewis' rather erractic literary achievements, and makes a half-hearted stab at an evaluation of his importance as a twentieth-century writer and critic...