Word: raconteurism
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Family Doctor. Arnstein, son of an immigrant butcher, has prepared the scores for 42 operas, hundreds of orchestral works, and musicals like Bernstein's West Side Story. Privy to all the inside news in music, he is an amiable raconteur, and his office is a hangout for composers who want to catch up on the latest gossip or get an instant reading on a rival's work. "Any opera with that many tremolos can't be good," Arnie will...
Died. Ward Morehouse, 67, drama critic and columnist, whose gently gossipy "Broadway After Dark" appeared for 40 years, first in the New York Sun, then in the World Telegram and Sun, and finally, since 1956, in the 21-paper Newhouse chain, a puckish bon vivant and raconteur who spent his winters holding forth at Manhattan's "21," his summers traveling to faraway places, all the while striving to put his own plays up in lights (Gentlemen of the Press), but with slight success; of pulmonary edema; in Manhattan...
...really seeking an insurance shelter, it seems clear that at 45, Ustinov has few worries. Successful as actor, director, composer, mimic and raconteur, he has also established himself as an author of respectable talent and prodigious output. Besides 16 plays (including The Love of Four Colonels and Romanoff and Juliet), he has tooled a better-than-average novel, The Loser, a collection of short stories, Add a Dash of Pity, and two volumes of better-than-average caricatures...
Play Something. He is also an inveterate raconteur. "I love to talk," he says. "But I jump around. If I tell you I like this lamp, I'm likely to start talking about Nietzsche or pre-Bach music or Chinese art or God knows what...
Dennis is a great raconteur. He reminisces, drops names, and without changing his expression drifts into the most extravagant and obviously fabricated stories of his exploits. He says he cares only about the most dangerous undertakings and alludes to water skiing, drag racing, and track records he supposedly holds...