Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DYLAN is a brilliant illustration of how an actor of unparalleled skill can invade the mind and personify the temperament of another man, despite a considerable difference in appearance. For a little over two hours, Dylan Thomas lives again in Alec Guinness.
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What could be done is what the producers did: they hired Lilli Palmer to play the actress, Jean Sorel to play her callow paramour, and Charles Boyer -that great screen lover of yore-to play the cuckolded husband. In a secondary role, Boyer deftly blends temperament and tolerance to contrast...
He wrote all the time, but in those days there was nothing much to distinguish his work from 20 other short-story writers. The tone of the time was bleak, flat, ironical. He achieved this style, but it was not really his. Nor did the times suit his lyrical temperament...
By temperament and training, Murphy was committed to "obedience to official policy"-an attitude perhaps admirable in a career diplomat but less so in a memorialist. Thus Diplomat Among Warriors has little to say about the overall foreign policy of the period that it covers. But it has a few...