Word: rakishness
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...rakish, talented devils...
Died. Basil Rathbone, 75, Hollywood's paragon of British urbanity, a rakish, aquiline-nosed immigrant from the London stage who menaced, mocked and often sleuthed his way through more than 100 pictures, including 16 as a resonant Sherlock Holmes, after which he deserted Baker Street for a versatile career in TV and on the Broad way stage (1959's J.B.); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Picture of Travail. The interview began in front of the Guggenheim museum (where a beatnik type "swept off his rakish Astrakhan hat and stood transfixed"), then moved on to Schrafft's (where John Jr. had a butterscotch sundae), and ended up at a friend's Fifth Avenue apartment. Conniff and Considine are unabashed admirers of "the young woman who bears such assorted burdens as Gallup's pronouncement that she is the most admired person of her sex in the world ... a woman who has been on the best-dressed lists most of her adult life ... the smile...
JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. Johnson's Boswell comes stunningly to life in this warm portrait of a rakish genius...
JAMES BOSWELL: THE EARLIER YEARS, by Frederick A. Pottle. Johnson's Boswell comes stunningly to life in this warm portrait of a rakish genius...