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After a brief, unhappy career as a wine salesman, Garrick wheedled his way on to the stage. He was an almost immediate success. At the age of 24 he revolutionized English acting with his performance of Colley Gibber's version of Shakespeare's Richard III. Where his predecessors had declaimed in stiff and grandiloquent periods, he developed an easy-flowing, natural and rant-free style. They had recited, but he acted...
...ease with her nasty little peers (who called her Ginger). At an age when the average young Neanderthaler is spelling out "I HATE BOOKS," Greer was already too old for Alice in Wonderland. She sprinkled her porridge with table talk from succés d'estime like Colley Gibber and His Circle. "I was," she recalls, "rather a stuffy child...
...Moss and Stones. Expert trackers can follow a trail from horseback even across flat granite rocks and the pebbly "Gibber Country" of the interior. There is virtually no vegetation, but the trackers watch for displaced pebbles or almost invisible marks in the vestiges of moss burnt to dust by the pitiless...
...might have been supposed. The Hall, a ghostly place with mysterious acoustics, is a majestic marble democracy wherein the modest statues of the truly great are crowded out by the effigies of such comparative unknowns as Uriah Rose of Arkansas. George Shoup of Idaho. At night, rats squeak and gibber around the bases of the monuments...
...more modern illusion lies bloody in the dust. Oh, joy, hear the cannibals gibber! To paraphrase: Jean Gabin has made, not a mediocre picture, not a bad one, but one that is simply stinking, divinely so, my dear...