Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play to each other as if there were no audience at all." Kabuki also goes in for exaggerated emotions. "When a few tears were called for," Clurman explains, "I would get a torrent. When a character should be moved, he would go into hysterics. I constantly had to tell them to be natural...
...seems disappointed, and I can't tell if it is because of the question I asked or because nobody famous had given him the 14-karat gold whistle from Tiffany's. So I ask him about his work habits. At once he is cheered...
...Yeah, little things keep cropping back. Like an onion, you know, two days later. Warren Beatty. I shouldn't tell you this but I will-Warren Beatty had his lawyers draft a letter to Esquire, not threatening libel or anything, but asking for a correction. It had eleven points-eleven things he objected to. But the funny part is they were all stupid things, like he didn't really eat as many hot dogs as I said...
...backwards to be nice to the subject. But life just isn't apple pie and Mother's Day seven days a week, and if you're going to write something that isn't going to be thrown out with, the coffee grounds, you have to tell it like it is. Look, I'm a very people-oriented person. I grew up without any unhappiness. And I just love people. But if some jackass picks his nose, I'm going to write...
...Avanzo's union may not have been striking, but the 180,000 daily commuters on the Long Island Rail Road could hardly tell the difference. Because of a 30% curtailment of normal service, which the state-owned Long Island blamed on a slowdown by D'Avanzo's car repairmen, overcrowded trains whizzed by their usual stops, forcing thousands of frustrated commuters to abandon the platforms in search of other transportation to their jobs. Engaged in a dispute with the ailing Long Island over job security, the union conceded that its men were refusing to work overtime...