Word: talese
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With success come all the pressures that long have been part of men's sports. The new emphasis on winning?and luring customers through the turnstiles?has produced a familiar syndrome of corruption. College recruiters, though technically barred from sweet-talking hot prospects, have nonetheless found ways to hound young...
A tale from the good old days? In a way. The boy, Jay O'Callahan, is now 39 and makes his living in a fashion that surely would have stumped the panelists of What's My Line? He is a spellbinding spinner of stories of his own devising...
Bespectacled and bearded, O'Callahan uses no scenery, no costumes, no props. But he gestures his way through each story, giving his voice dramatic colors, using body language to suggest character and attitude. As a blacksmith, his voice is deep and strong. As a little old lady, he totters...
More often than not, New York producers operate on an avaricious creed: if at first you do succeed, try it again and again. The current golden format is the confessional musical. It emerged as a shining triumph in A Chorus Line. Between dance numbers, each cast member explains why dancing...
Here is young Tom as sports editor of the Lumberton, N.C., daily in pre-Warren Court days, confronted by a war party of angry local baseball players after he had accidentally desegregated the box scores. Here he is, older but unbowed, battling with the Times's infamous New York...