Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cope with these roles until they have ceased to look the part. Stages have teemed with Romeos and Juliets old enough to be the lovers' parents and even grandparents. Mature-looking players, spouting these lines and perhaps affecting a few adolescent mannerisms, wind up unconvincing and often just plain silly...
...Bruce's last performances an account in Bruce's own words of his 19 busts. In Chicago a foolish bigoted judge puts on a show for the electorate. It's Ash Wednesday and the jurors he addresses all sport ashened foreheads. "It was like the goddammed Spanish Inquisition." The plain clothesmen who are sent out to gather evidence against him misinterpret Yiddish phrases. Gestures of benediction are mistaken for gestures of masturbation. Meanwhile his earnings have gone down from $350,000 to $6,000 and he shuttles in and out of hospitals, claiming to his listener (and implicitly through Speiser...
...more I work, the more I want to work," he says, recalling Picasso-but without the fear of death. Miró has always been a reclusive figure. The stubby squared-off head above the plain business suit could belong to any Barcelona merchant. What has issued from that head is a different matter: despite many trivial or self-parodying works, Miró is the last of the great stylists of early modern art, the most poetic and formally gifted of all the surrealists. His imagination, filled with juicy ironies and wry eroticism, has enriched generations of younger artists, including Pollock...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...
NONFICTION 1-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read (3) 2-Times to Remember, Kennedy (1) 3-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (2) 4-All the President's Men, Bernstein & Woodward (4) 5-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (5) 6-Management, Drucker (7) 7-Go East, Young Man, Douglas (9) 8-Working, Terkel (6) 9-Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, Brodie (8) 10-The Wall Street Gang...