Word: giftedness
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To try to find a joke suitable for print in “Virgin” is quite a feat, although most of it results more from the timing and rhythm of gifted comedians than from the language itself. When Trish asks Andy whether a white round tablet is a...
The movie version of Earl Derr Biggers' Confucian detective stories had something to offend everyone. Played by the Swedish actor Warner Oland (16 films), then by Missouri's Sidney Toler (22), Charlie spouted fortune-cookie aphorisms and lorded it over his No. 1 son. Toler, shown at right, even had...
Among the many rewards of the congress was the chance for unknowns to meet such lions as Nobel Prizewinners Bellow, Czeslaw Milosz and Claude Simon as well as Playwright Arthur Miller and International PEN President Per Wstberg. They mingled in places as dissimilar as hotel coffee shops and the...
The Sportswriter is an appreciation of the mystery of things as they are, a somewhat subversive notion because the book's action takes place over a long Easter weekend. By design or coincidence, there are 13 chapters plus a section called "The End," suggesting an ironic play on the 14...
DIED. Harold Arlen, 81, popular composer with a distinctively bluesy, jazz-based style who created some of America's most durable and cherished songs, ranging from the bubbling Get Happy, his first hit, in 1929, to the sultry Stormy Weather (1933) and including such perennials as It's Only a...