Word: naivet
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...Greek; Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl; Bette Midler in The Rose) to Oscar nominations; he was the solid ground they danced on. The stage allowed him to dominate. He radiated silky malevolence in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, a tonic cynicism in Simon Gray's Butley, a charming naiveté in Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. Bates' brilliance was too often taken for granted. His absence leaves a profound hole, an ache, in our theater and film life. -By Richard Corliss...
...always maintained his innocence. "I am a straight shooter," he told the Czech daily Mlada fronta Dnes last November. "I sleep well and don't think that I did anything wrong." But Jaromír Jindrich, the lead Czech prosecutor in the case, says Kozeny took advantage of the "naiveté and inexperience" of the Czech people after the fall of communism. "At that time anybody or anything coming from the West was looked up to without question." The Czech Republic has no extradition treaty with the Bahamas, but the U.S. does...
...Zafaraniya police station, she was, she says, brutally beaten for several days in a row, raped and had a hot candle forced into her rectum. "I kept telling the police, 'You can't do this to me. I'm a lawyer,'" she says, smiling sadly at her own naiveté. "They said, 'Once you become an enemy of Uday, you are nothing...
...play movie producer. Which of these film treatments would get your green light?
...play movie producer. Which of these film treatments would get your green light?