Word: tactlessness
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...demanding director; he'd fire actors and, before the sentence was finished, rehire them. Yet he was as loved as he was respected. Generous and easily weepy, he was also, in Guinness' words, "brilliantly tactless," dropping the brick of an insult that he could make vanish with a blithe demurral. In his 90s, when he might have sat at home with his lover Martin Hensler and his beloved Times crosswords, this old theatrical cat was often on a film set, spinning anecdotes of the legendary actor-managers Henry Irving and Herbert Beerbohm Tree. "When I was young," he said...