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Word: kearing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smash hit, and far more than an expanded honeymooners skit, was the Nichols style: timing, vibrance and a slavish attention to detail. Nichols and failure became antonyms. Barefoot was followed by The Knack, Luv and The Odd Couple. The director came to resemble Somerset Maugham's nouveau novelist, Alroy Kear, who read that genius was an infinite capacity for taking pains. "If that was all, he must have told himself, he could be a genius like the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Some are More Yossarian than Others | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

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