Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, on his media shyness: "America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance...
...greatest play, The Glass Menagerie, Williams portrayed his mother, clinging to outworn social "standards" to validate her life, and his withdrawn sister Rose, her madness and eventual lobotomy transmuted onstage into shyness and a limp. His own surrogate alternated between cries of self- justification and outpourings of guilt. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams depicted the brute half of himself, Stanley Kowalski, destroying the fragile, distracted half, Blanche DuBois...
...world, the British Royal Family seems wholly unworthy of the decorum and severity that surrounds its every public move. People simply adore this bunch of misfits, and it's hilarious to watch crowds cheer the Queen's tiny wave, the Queen Mother's vacant smile, and Prince Charles' shyness as the troupe arrives at Ascot tin open carriages each summer...
...author's public career and honors, the other of his failures and the early deaths of many of his family and close friends. By the adroit use of such detail, Barnes builds a warmer personality for the novelist than his glacial public image. Flaubert's stiff shyness and pride, his solitary stance in life and self-described bearishness become signs of human vulnerability rather than the armor of an artist against the distractions of the world...
When her daughter showed signs of shyness and loneliness, Mother Erma signed her up for tap-dancing lessons as therapy, then took her to an audition for a Kiddie Revue at a local radio station. Erma stayed on the program for nearly eight years, tap dancing and singing. "She was quite a little hoofer," says her mother, who still has Erma's signed song sheets for On the Good Ship Lollipop and I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter. Bombeck says it is obvious that the wrong Erma broke into show biz. When...