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...excellent film director (Billy Budd) and a serious Shakespearean (King Lear at Stratford, Ont.). He won Supporting Actor Oscars for Spartacus and Topkapi, and earned his greatest movie renown as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, as in the film of Death on the Nile. His spirit was essentially impish (as on a comedy album for which he provided all the voices and sound effects); his greatest role was Peter Ustinov, inexhaustible raconteur. The title of his 1977 autobiography summed up the world's opinion of this engaging, capacious talent: Dear Me. ?By Richard Corliss...
...Oxford taught Ted one important lesson: He was not suited for scholarship. Actually he was told that by a young classmate peering over his shoulder at the impish illustrations, such as a two-legged dog with wings (and shoes) that he drew in the margins of his notebook. The classmate was Helen Palmer, a Wellesley grad taking her Master's in education, and Ted thought her judgment so acute that, a year later, he married her. He also left Oxford after a year. The only doctorate he'd need would be self-awarded...
...with the hip redesign of its sales floors. A few years ago, the store's managers went to him looking for someone to cast a fresh eye on their massive neoclassical flagship store. (Picture the U.S. Treasury Building stuffed with designer boutiques.) Adjaye recalls their meeting with that impish smile of his. "I said to them, 'What you have here is a shantytown. I'm going to build you a city...
Your cover photo was remarkable for its contrasts [April 14]. At first glance, I saw the face of a man sharing a ribald joke or perhaps preparing to engage in impish folly. On second glance, however, as I looked carefully at Saddam Hussein's eyes, I could see the jagged edge of a gangrenous soul. JAMES H. HYDE Stowe...
...Hole (Scribner; 384 pages), she thought it would center on windmills and the people who work on them in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. "For years I've drifted through there on the way to other places," she says in her agreeably settled but sometimes impish voice. "There were these dilapidated places with windmills facedown in the yard and a general air of dishevelment. Or you'd see huge, golden, grassy fields and a windmill way out yonder. I made up my mind that one of these days I would write about the Panhandle and the windmills...