Word: raconteur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great sense of humor and was a great raconteur," Roger Kozol said...
Reilly grew up visiting an Irish grandfather who kept him riveted with suspenseful tales. But Reilly's gift, colleagues say, has as much to do with his skill as a technician as it does with his being a good raconteur. "Jimmy has perfected the art of not being predictable," says Lisa Hesser, the show's executive producer. "Most soap opera viewers know they have to watch on Fridays and Mondays, but Jim can have a blockbuster event on a Tuesday." If that event should involve a reincarnated Dodi, well then, all the better...
...narrator's complex and playfully oblique answers assert the legitimacy of her love though they never really tell us a story--veering instead towards commentary and description. I see the lack of substantial plot in Winterson's writing less as a flaw in her abilities as raconteur and more as her attempt to defy the genre of short fiction. She challenges our notions of love and storytelling simultaneously...
...school run by the Christian Brothers, who, Hyde says, "did not eschew corporal punishment when called for, which was often." As a 6-ft. 1-in. eighth-grader, Hyde was a presence in the hallways for more reasons than just his talent for magic tricks. "He was always a raconteur," remembers Corboy. "He talked like an adult when...
...occasionally flashes back to the Limerick life portrayed in Angela's Ashes, Malachy chiefly recounts what happened to him after his arrival in New York City in 1952, when he was 20. He worked for a while as a longshoreman, gained a reputation as a hard-drinking wit and raconteur, became an off-Broadway actor, appeared with Jack Paar on the Tonight show, tended bar as part owner of an East Side joint named Malachy's and later, down on his luck, smuggled gold ingots strapped about his portly person into India...