Word: schemer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shakespeare has England's King Richard III describe himself. For almost 500 years, the world has pictured the last of the Plantagenets as one of history's arch villains: a homicidal ("I can smile, and murder while I smile"), deformed ("an envious mountain on my back . . .") schemer who usurped the throne and foully murdered the boy princes in the Tower...
...sales resistance to anything better in shoes has been as tough as the calluses on his broad feet. Only one salesman ever dented it-and he was fictional, an O. Henry character (Mr. Hemstetter in Cabbages and Kings) who promptly sold out his stock after a clever schemer sprinkled the countryside with Alabama cockleburs...
...passionate devotion to her. He just feels "empty" and runs to the company of the Lebedevs, who are themselves living superficial existences and are unable to understand one another. It is interesting that the only person who can temporarily awake these creatures from their lethargy is Misha, a worthless schemer, admirably played in the Brattle production by Paul Sparer...