Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately for Biff, his peek-a-boo antics did not go unnoticed. Karandas Nathasingh, instructor in Indian Studies, on his way to the Biology Labs to meet a fellow countryman for lunch, caught a distinct glimpse of the vacant-faced young man lurking behind the statue of John Harvard. Karandas weighed over 350 pounds, and unlike most fat men was of an exceedingly peevish disposition. "Someone," Karandas's mind registered, "is staring at me. This is intolerable. Worse than that, impolite. Has he never seen a fat Indian before?" With that, the Indian increased his speed and flew past Hunt...
...wouldn't have suspected they'd be up to. Actors with no apparent sense of timing turned out to be marching to a distant crucial drum. Some sooty cripple who would have been booed down at a PTA benefit stuck up her face and said her little pice at, peek-a-boo, just the moment a touch of farce...
Zukav's performance was a parody, but of a real person, not of an actor trying to be funny. Security never stepped out of character. No nervous undergraduate seemed to peek from behind the persona, asking that we remember that he is not taking himself seriously. Zukav played his fool wholeheartedly...
...Phrase-Chomping. On second thought, they probably will. Its just that they shouldn't. "The problem," as Matthau accurately puts it, "is that I'm too good." Each of his character creations has a fine-tuned completeness that leaves no room for Matthau the personality to peek through. A gimmick a trademark, an image, Matthau does not have: "People either ask me, 'Are you a television actor? or else, 'Are you from Erie, Pa.?' " Playwright Simon says Matthau is "the greatest instinctive actor I ve ever seen " He has turned in impeccable, widely varied performances...
...recent peek into a student's room off the Harvard Yard one Wednesday evening indicated an empirical approach to Biology on the college level with an obvious attempt at the study of live anatomy, female...