Word: professional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With green eyes and a Gardol smile, he has an appeal to women that approximates Lena Horne's impact on men. Yet for all his public charm, he is an inner-directed man in an outer-directed profession. Even his closest staff aides have accepted the fact that he insists...
But unlike the other characters in Blow-Up, the photographer is not among the living dead in Antonioni's sterile London. Antonioni's photographer is in limbo, precariously balanced on the borderline between submergence in the frenzied non-involvement around him, and commitment to reality. Essentially weak, he inevitably succumbs...
Déclassé Profession. Unlike many civil-libertarians, Williams acquired his lofty ideals in courtrooms rather than classrooms. The son of a Hartford department-store floorwalker, he helped support his family as a filling-station attendant. A flawless student, he was awarded a scholarship to Holy Cross and graduated...
Angry Gods. In a twist on the temperamental tenors and sopranos who war offstage and woo onstage, the Berrys in private life seem like a hand-holding coosome. Though the profession is land-mined with problems for married singers, they have made a go of it because their careers progressed...
In this age of specialization, the renaissance man is becoming hard to find. Yet, the curiosity of the most inventive thinkers in every field has always extended far beyond the limits of a single discipline. Leonardo Da Vinci is as famous for his inventions as for his paintings, and the...