Word: shyness
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Their gazes mix awe and deep familiarity and shyness. They are blue-collar people, or else small farmers who work these hills. Mostly they have rough, country faces and washed, flat, distantly Celtic eyes. People in wheelchairs are pushed up to his wheelchair, and George Wallace reaches out the gentlest communing hands to them, and spends long moments with each, consoling and almost, one thinks, healing. He has the nimbus of saint and martyr-or at any rate, of a celebrity who has passed through the fire and the greater world; he has come back to them from history, come...
...PROBLEM with The Floating Lightbulb is that while Allen is painting the common problems he always has, this time he shows them only as common. His previous plays and movies worked because he magnified his own fear, shyness, or insecurity enough to catch reflections from his audiences' souls. Allen plays such as Don't Drink the Water and Play it Again Sam revolved around the Woody Allen Character. Allen even played the lead in the film version of the latter, and in other movies he consistently played himself or some version thereof...
...July and marked Diana's official debut on the job. The threeday, 400-mile journey by train coach and Rolls-Royce, was a wearying one, but it never showed on the royal brows. Diana plunged into her new duties with a zest that belied her past head-down shyness. At every stop, there were excited cries of "Princess Diana! Princess Diana!" Said Charles gesturing to his lady: "There's the person you've come...
...same bed with "Satnin'," his baby-talk name for the mother he stroked and petted until her death. Gladys did not let the boy play out of her sight until he was 15 and still walked him to school in ninth grade. At 16, Elvis transformed his paralyzing shyness into a bizarre statement: greased locks, pegged pants, mascara and eye shadow. Later he would dye his dirty-blond hair black, imitating a hoody Tony Curtis in the 1949 Brooklyn gang movie City Across the River. When Gladys died of a heart attack in 1958, the King of Rock...
...giddiness to this passage, a nostalgic indulgence of youthful silliness-except that it is the women who are trapped. Katerina becomes pregnant and bears the child of the slick television-type who is briefly her lover, but presses ahead with a career anyway -there's steel under her shyness-and suddenly finds herself in life's second...