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Word: lecherouseness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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DORSEY'S ROLE as Emily Kimberly is the third layer of Hoffman's complex acting performance. Kimberly ironically becomes the voice of middle-aged women fed up with sexual harassment and lecherous men. Hoffman's Kimberly is prim and proper and stylizes her precise movements on the set. She's...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: On a Roll | 1/5/1983 | See Source »

All's Well is a difficult play, partly because it embraces tantalizing contradictions. It is romantic and antiromantic. It is rational in discourse, yet a strange current of magic, mystery and folklore courses through it. Even its lovers are drawn to each other only as opposites. Helena (Harriet Walter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pride of the London Season | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

For all this deluge, movie-star biography has not yet earned literary respectability. Even with the best of intentions, the subjects doubtlessly yield from time to time to the theatrical temptation of make-believe. Yet the accumulated mountain of star lore certainly tells more than enough about what Hollywood stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What the Stars Are Really Like | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

Heading a top international cast, Italian Baritone Renato Bruson was totally in harmony with the conductor. His Sir John was not the lecherous, cardboard heavyweight of operatic cliche but a man of complex emotions-however inappropriately addressed to two married ladies of Windsor After a somewhat tentative start, Bruson'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Fresh Falstaff in Los Angeles | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

The opera's plot is a domestic tragedy with universal implications. Katerina is the sexually frustrated wife of a rich provincial merchant, Zinovy, and the object of the thinly disguised passion of Boris, her lecherous father-in-law. Into her life comes Sergei, a handsome young worker. The pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Add One to the List of Greats: Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

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