Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the people-a presence that fits many moods, a style that swings with grace from high formality to almost prankish casualness, a quick charm, the patience to listen, a sure social touch, an interest in knowledge and a greed for facts, a zest for play matched by a passion for work. Today his personal popularity compares favorably with such popular heroes as Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower...
...said to illustrate "what God would do if he had money," and finally cemented his claim to a place in theatrical legend with Act One, the disarmingly candid autobiography of a man who described his life as a mixture of "New York, Hollywood, insomnia, nervous indigestion and a childlike passion for the theater...
...ROAD PAST MANDALAY, by John Masters. The author, a British officer in the Indian army in Burma during World War II and a professional novelist (Bhowani Junction) since then, writes with skill and passion of the many faces...
...wide and proven capabilities as a character actor and in leading roles in the West End. His working range runs from comedy through the sinister to the malevolent. Son of a railroad stationmaster, Pleasence is a retiring and almost anonymous man away from work, with a subdued passion for birds, flowers and motorcars (he drives a Jaguar). One curious result of his marvelously grimy performance in Caretaker is that he feels compelled to reassure people that "I do bathe-often. I had a bath a few minutes...
...most clowns, she is a well of sadness. Though she can capture the mood of a city with brilliance-a grey and misty Paris, a self-consciously French Brussels, a stifled Madrid with skull eyes for windows-her chief subject is the individual caught in a moment of pain, passion or loneliness. In her Old Folks Home, which was inspired by a nursing home her 81-year-old father was once in, the old couples sit close together, but each person has withdrawn into a world of his own until the whole scene seems suffocated in silence. Her Kleptomaniac, which...