Word: protean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long vacation from mayhem. In the real world, he maintains an identity as Composer R. Bruce Montgomery, the man who has settled the scores for dozens of British movies. As Crispin, he spikes the suspense with some hilarious rustic intermezzos worthy of Wodehouse. Glimpses should win the protean author the wide American audience that, for improbable reasons, he has never achieved...
...existential hero suggested he knew. Hoffman is short, nasal and urban; set him against a big American sky, and you get a comedy like Little Big Man. Half the fans think Pacino is De Niro, while the rest are pretty sure De Niro is Pacino. Anyway, they are consummate, protean actors, not archetypes, and they never pretended, or wanted, to be anything less?or more, depending on the point of view...
...chimera, the griffin, the manticore and the sphinx are familiar fauna that flourish outside traditional biology. Now it appears that unfamiliar flora grow outside of conventional botany. Or so says the protean Leo Lionni, 67, teacher, painter, sculptor, former art director of FORTUNE and author of a dozen delightful children's books. To illustrate, Lionni has literalized Marianne Moore's "imaginary gardens with real toads in them"-and then removed the toads. What remains is a series of never-were "parallel plants," a vegetable kingdom with members rooted beyond the fences of nature and logic...
Married. Jeanne Moreau, 49, protean femme fatale of French cinema (Jules and Jim, La Lumiere); and American Movie Director (The French Connection, The Exorcist) William Friedkin, 37; she for the second time, he for the first; in a brief civil ceremony in Paris. Moreau has been writing a book and a screenplay in the south of France while Friedkin, in Mexico, has directed The Sorcerer...
...always feel the best way to do a story is to get involved," says Jim Hartz, traveling co-host of the Today show. Which is why he allowed A.L. Blanton, mayor of Plains, Ga., to do a Samson number on Hartz's hair. Since the protean Blanton also works as a barber-and local air traffic controller-Hartz figured one way to conduct an interview with the mayor was under the clippers. When Hartz got back home to New York, his regular hair stylist flipped his lid, condemning the job as "lopsided" and pointing out "there...