Word: shyness
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...philosophical doubt to cloud her devious conceptions or hinder the icy logic of their untanglings. Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, she was the daughter of a rich American and an English mother. Although gifted with a good singing voice, she abandoned a stage career because of her shyness. In 1914 she married a British airman, Colonel Archibald Christie, and plunged into the war effort. Between volunteer nursing and practicing pharmacy, she wrote her first detective story on a dare from her sister. The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced the 5-ft. 4-in. dandy and retired Belgian police...
...concedes that in her younger days, her own shyness gave her a frantic need to be on the scene. Modeling gave her self-confidence, and acting "is a vent for my fantasies." Last week in Manhattan, cuddling her Shih Tzu, K.K. (short for King Kong), she reminisced about her most notable fantasy to date, Lady Lyndon. Done up like a portrait by Gainsborough, Marisa seems the model of 18th century English womanhood, even to the torrents of tears Lady Lyndon sheds at her son's death. "I could do nothing else but cry, looking at that sweet...
...hater. Ali wants to present himself in another light, to offer the public the "real" Ali. He tells us of his early sex life, and his flubbing of a chance with a hooker when he was 16 because he didn't know what to do. He dwells on his shyness with women (a shyness which one suspects still exists). There's a riotous conversation with Joe Frazier which Ali taped in Frazier's car prior to their first fight. And then there's the usual Ali irony and understatement. Of Rocky Marciano he says, "Rocky was quiet, peaceful, humble...
...outline the workings of Wharton's inner life, dismantling with obvious pleasure Percy Lubbock's depiction of her in Portrait of Edith Wharton as overly haughty and repressed. The Wharton who emerges from this biography is, by contrast, a woman whose pride is most often a cover for shyness, and whose dormant sensuality is a force that merely awaits release by the right...
...Bruce works instinctively," Landau observes. "He is incredibly intense, and he concentrates deeply. Underneath his shyness is the strongest will I've ever encountered. If there's something he doesn't want to do, he won't." Springsteen would work most days from 3 p.m. to 6 a.m., and sometimes as long as 24 hours, without stopping. Only occasionally did things go quickly. For a smoky midnight song called Meeting Across the River, Springsteen just announced, "O.K., I hear a string bass, and I hear a trumpet," and, according to Landau, "that was it." Finally...