Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studying the author as well as the script. Anderson didn't think much of the idea of a writer-director. He said he was personally glad to have someone else work with the actors to get at his meaning, especially a director like Kazan, who he feels has a knack for getting a great deal out of the actor. By revealing personal things about himself, Anderson explained, Kazan gets his actors to do the same--making their experience available to them for interpreting a role. As a writer very conscious of the theater, Anderson said that if an actor could...
...usual, in black face. Like Ratte, with a few well-chosen references, he reveals the plight of his narator--a young Negro boy who is intensely concerned about being misunderstood--without, however, making his subject appear abnormally sensitive. One of the story's principal virtues is Cumming's knack for conveying the feeling of the woods in a very few words...
Insides Bill Stone and John Hamlin from the backbone of the line. Stone, who booted one of the Crimson's goals against Exeter, has "a knack" of getting points," scoring frequently during scrimmage. Hamlin's main assets are his passing and adeptness in maneuvering the ball...
Some people have a knack for blurting out the wrong words at the wrong time. Will Stockdale, the hero of No Time for Sergeants, is a genius at this artless art. His naive, well-meant blunders form the best argument yet discovered against continuing the draft, or at least the best remedy for accepting it. The resulting comedy, which Ira Levin adapted from Mac Hyman's best-selling novel, shows how a Georgia farm boy can send the U.S. Air Force into a tailspin. Maurice Evans has produced this new play almost as a sequel to the Teahouse...
Tourist Snapshots. One of Gunther's chief qualities is his tourist's knack for relating the far-off to the familiar. Thus, the muffled women of Tangier are like "wads of Kleenex," while some native chiefs remind him of Chicago ward heelers. Often he exaggerates and occasionally he is downright naive, but when it comes to picturesque details, Reporter Gunther has them all. "Giraffes," he reports from East Africa, "intertwine their necks when making love." And he is equally informative on human marriage customs...