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...raged on. To his indignation and amusement, the notoriety transcended the art. Last year brought two scandal- tinged biographies of the playwright, who died in 1983. Last week saw the arrival of a far more affectionate event, Confessions of a Nightingale, an ingratiatingly salty impersonation of Williams the raconteur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Eerie Dancing At the Abyss Confessions of a Nightingale | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

Jackson is cherished by colleagues for his talents as a raconteur and his invariable appearance in braces (never suspenders). His eye-catching collection includes pairs with fox-hunting scenes and depictions of disporting nudes. "I wore braces even in combat," says Jackson cheerily. "Once a fop, always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Oct. 28, 1985 | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...Australia, dying a pointless death in a hurricane. Rebecca, the idealist, ends up in a kibbutz, shattered and alone after her son is killed by a bomb in an Israeli café. Jan, the poet, remains in Czechoslovakia. Blacklisted into silence, he commits suicide. As a self-described "raconteur of cynical tales," Danny concludes that the only meaning to life is that there is no meaning. "History that repeats itself is a farce" becomes his fancy way of translating Huck Finn's cry from the heart: "I been there before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comic Exile in Three Worlds | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

...fact, the result-Travels with Charley-was a charming little book. Benson might well have made his strongest case for Steinbeck as a rambling raconteur, or as a superb short-story writer. 77?^ Red Pony and The Leader of the People live on as classics for the loving precision with which they portray a young boy's painful need to grow up and an old man's passion to recall his youth. If only Steinbeck, an innately modest man, had been more modest as a writer, he might not have been destined to whipsaw himself between the pretentious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Belonged Nowhere | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...films are argument enough for his place in movie history. With My Last Sigh, Buñuel allows himself to be seen in another light: as that most engaging of con artists, the raconteur. Reading the memoir is like spending a long, lazy afternoon in his presence. His voice never rises above a murmur. A small smile engages his face as he recalls some long-ago provocation that today scandalizes no one. Now and then he dozes. On one such afternoon this summer, Buñuel nodded off into immortality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dry Martini | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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