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Many actors might play such a character with wicked intensity. McShane excels at bringing out Swearengen's contradictions, not just with bluster but also with "the slightest gesture and simple stare," in the words of Timothy Olyphant, who plays Seth Bullock, the town sheriff and Swearengen's headstrong counterweight. Swearengen is coarse yet intelligent, brutal yet subtle. "He is the primitive in the modern world," says McShane. "Swearengen is the smartest man in town, but he knows that because of his nature he will not be accepted. So he pulls the strings behind the scenes...
...from section into a giant bar of soap? The drawings also define the story. Without the pictures, there would be no way of seeing the underlying pathos to a seemingly funny situation. The embodiment of God’s wrath is unarguably pathetic as Corrigan is left alone to stare at his Rookie of the Year photo, while his police comrades go home to loving wives...
...anyone about Marcus Garvey, and you’re likely to get a blank stare, or that same stare preceded by something about “Back to Africa.” Arguably the most overlooked and misunderstood black leader of the past century, Garvey led the second-largest organized mass movement of people of African ancestry—exceeded only by the slave trade. He was the father of the Pan-African movement and the grandfather of the civil rights and African nationalist movements of the 1950s and 1960s and the black self-determination efforts of the 1970s. Without...
...quickly learned - or found within himself, the secrets of conjuring -misdirection, poise, timing, a commanding personality -which are also the secrets of standup comedy. His model was Jack Benny, the radio comedian. Benny could pull a laugh out of a sour audience with only a pause and a stare, which was pretty daring for an aural medium. Dick Cavett, who would later write for Carson and host his own talk show on ABC and PBS -and who at 13 saw Carson, then 23 and back from Navy service in World War II, perform in a Lincoln church basement -says that...
When asked about how he passed his winters, Rogers Hornsby, the famously ornery Hall-of-Fame second basemen, replied, “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring...