Word: proteans
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MILES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe (Simon & Schuster; $21.95). An as-told-to memoir by a protean genius of modern jazz who played with Bird, Diz and countless other legends. With all the uglies -- drugs, booze, women betrayed -- writ large...
MILES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe (Simon & Schuster; $21.95). An as-told-to memoir by a protean genius of modern jazz who played with Bird, Diz and countless other legends. With all the uglies -- drugs, booze, women betrayed -- writ large...
...generation he was Heathcliff and Hamlet; for another, the wily granddad of movie melodrama. And for the ages this prodigious, protean figure was our century's greatest actor...
Plays can prove themselves to be lasting literature in two ways. Some, like Hamlet, show a protean adaptability that allows each interpreter to find a different theme or message. Others, like Our Town, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a robustly funny Broadway revival that opened last week, say much the same things in every production, yet manage to do so with a seemingly inexhaustible freshness. Actors and directors, predictably, tend to prefer the protean kind of play, because it gives them greater opportunity to display creativity and intelligence. But audiences can be just as happy with the second...
Autobiographies and mysteries, collections of limericks, books on physics and the Bible, Shakespeare and sci- fi -- all bear the byline of the protean author Isaac Asimov...