Word: rudest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...admission, too impatient with others. By way of a compliment, Director Peter Hall once told her that in her early days as an actress she was the rudest walk-on he had ever seen. "I am lacking in charity a bit," she admits. "I'm told I'm too independent. It's a fault when you can't say 'Help!' but all I can do is retire and get solitary and work things out for myself." On such occasions, Diana will sometimes slip away to an old finca she bought some years...
...Post, the book reports, eventually took note of the special circumstances raised by ocean travel. "The Worldlys always have their meals served in their own 'drawing-rooms,' and have their deck chairs placed so that no one is very near them," she wrote; however, "none but the rudest snob would sit through meal after meal without ever addressing a word to his table companions...
Died. Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, 82, widow of the playwright, a minor actress but great beauty of the '20s; in Westwood, NJ. "The first time I met O'Neill," she once recalled, "I thought him the rudest man I'd ever seen. And he had no use for me." They both soon thought differently, and after a tempestuous courtship, were married in 1929. She brought a semblance of stability to his life, putting his affairs in order, typing his manuscripts and looking after his poor health. He responded with bursts of creative energy, notably Mourning Becomes...
...patch of openmouthed lilies as Doryan appears on the hill. Their couplings-and every potentially significant moment in the film -are drowned by the roar of the surf, the creak of windblown trees, the ta-pocketa-pocketa of a British power generator, and an overpowering score. Perhaps the rudest device of all is the misuse of John Mills as the village idiot who sees all and knows all, but can tell nothing. Like the film itself, it is scarcely worthy of Lean's demonstrated talent...
There is little overt civic pride. Even Big Business is either too big, fragmented or uninterested to offer the kind of leadership it exerts in cities like Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Extraordinarily kind on occasion, New Yorkers in the mass can be the rudest, surliest, nastiest citizens of America and, with the possible exception of Paris, the world...