Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Joan, Siobhan has starred as an international vagabond. "I go from country to country, and half the time I don't know where I am.'' But movies, stage or television, she always knows what she wants to be. "In England,'' she says, "first they wanted to change my name. I said: 'No, thank you; I don't know who was responsible for it, but obviously they went to a lot of trouble to think it up.' " In Hollywood, she had similar trouble. "They said...
...four-story Georgian house in Dublin. The blunt matter-of-factness she displayed as Maggie Wylie last week belongs in large measure to Siobhan McKenna. Says she: "I'm a party girl, but if I have a hangover, I take nothing for it; I want to know how hung over I am." Her forthright opinions are famed among her friends. Some samples: ¶ On Catholicism: "I believe every word." ¶On money: "I'll never sacrifice myself on the altar of poverty." ¶On "Method" acting: "Ridiculous. It isn't important what you feel...
...souled aristocrat, Stavrogin longs to be a sort of Nietzschean superman. He instigates a band of young revolutionaries to murder, rapes his landlady's little daughter, finally commits suicide. In the hands of Camus, Stavrogin emerges as a modern man, a desperate seeker of God who does not know where to look. Says another character in The Possessed: "When he believes, he does not believe that he believes, and when he does not believe, he does not believe that he does not believe...
...Lawrence Welk, both the Eisenhowers and the Nixons dug him. Ike tapped his foot vigorously in time with I've Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle and smiled at such old favorites as A Little Bit of Heaven. The President asked Welk: "Don't you know The Yellow Rose of Texas?" Replied Welk: "Well, if we don't we can certainly make it up." Then, reports a White House aide, Welk and his band proceeded to do just that. No one could recognize the tune...
...chaser, superbly indifferent to the blood that dribbles down his chin. Ekh, Tovarish! What does a man care for such scratches when his heart is bleeding-and not only from the wounds of love. The major's heart is bleeding for all those dead Hungarians: "I know my men. They love these people...