Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been touched by the finger of God, Actor Hume Cronyn observed, and there was in fact something miraculous in his becoming an actor at all. His father, Richard Jenkins, was a coal miner in the Welsh steel town of Pontrhydyfen; Burton was the twelfth of 13 children, and his mother died when he was two. An ambition to be not only an actor but a superb actor was somehow ignited, and when he was in his teens he attached himself to Philip Burton, who taught literature and drama in a local school. "He had a very coarse, rough voice then...
...rhinos and a hippo among the witnesses; but a second divorce soon followed. He married, divorced and married again. His fourth wife Sally was with him last week when he was stricken at their modest villa in the Swiss village of Céligny, where, dressed in red, the Welsh national color, he was also buried. The services included the familiar words of Dylan Thomas and the strains of a Welsh rugby song...
...throwing away his theater career," said Gielgud last week. Burton's friends had been telling him that for years. It was advice he did not want to take. "I rather like my reputation, actually," he said when he turned 50. "That of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer. It's rather an attractive image." Some measure out their lives with coffee spoons; Burton, like his friend and fellow Welshman Dylan Thomas, poured his out by the bucketful until, at last, there was nothing left. -By Gerald Clarke
...Drunk's Castle. Edward Welsh was already in bed when the police came pounding on his door in Madison, Wis. They had been alerted by a motorist who saw him driving erratically. The officers, who had no warrant, were admitted to Welsh's home by his stepdaughter. They went to his bedroom and arrested him for drunk driving. In Wisconsin, a first drunk-driving conviction is a civil offense that carries no jail sentence. Welsh appealed the legality of his arrest all the way to the Supreme Court. He was vindicated when the Justices ruled...
...only discernible change in Hwang's life-style has been to move into a new home in Los Altos that was modeled after a Welsh castle. It has a sauna and Jacuzzi in the master bedroom and an elaborate security system. Hwang still works a six-day week. Says he: "My executives call me a slave driver. But I tell them to look at Osborne, and they don't say anything." Adam Osborne headed a fast-growing personal-computer firm that announced plans to go public last winter but ended up filing for bankruptcy in September...