Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel that my talents and success are not a product of my own self but a product of my environment, and I want to use the talents I have in a socially constructive way. I see myself as a tool that can be used the in the best way possible to improve the world...
Darden, who liked to wear capes and tool around town in a vintage Rolls, was a perfect archetype for the troupe: brainy, unorthodox, funny, demanding and supercilious. He takes up a lot of space in this dishy backstage book: even here, the star system prevails. Despite the author's strenuous attempts at seriousness, the eruptive, disruptive talents who made the theater memorable are the same ones who make The Compass a good read...
FLASHBACKS: ON RETURNING TO VIETNAM by Morley Safer (Random House; $18.95). Visiting old battlegrounds and interviewing old soldiers, the veteran CBS correspondent reminds us of a time when the typewriter, not the portable hair dryer, was the essential tool of the TV journalist...
...Adams House courtyard is not exactly Central Park, but directors Tom Hopkins and Orion Ross use the space creatively. A fire escape is the tool for a dramatic entrance in one scene, and Hopkins and Ross manufacture chase scenes that give new meaning to the phrase "running around in circles...
...destroy. The footage of troops burning peasant huts was seen by millions on the CBS News. It was an era of "tragic foolishness," says Safer in Flashbacks, an artful contrast of past and present that recalls a time when the typewriter, not the portable hair dryer, was the essential tool of the TV journalist...