Word: imagist
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...business of the tireless and insinuating Kazan in the 1940s and '50s, when he was something no one before or since has been: simultaneously America's leading theatrical (A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman) and movie (On the Waterfront) director. He was not so much a great imagist as a great listener to, manipulator and appreciator of, the sometimes dissonant music of volatile personalities. What he sought was not so much acting, the way it had been conventionally understood, as it was heartbreaking, sometimes heart-stopping, moments of emotional reality that transcended the dramatic conventions of whatever...