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...Shaffer was a kindred spirit to Mankiewicz: a cunning wordsmith with a playwright brother; his identical twin, Peter, wrote Equus and Amadeus. Like Mankiewicz (and Pinter, for that matter), Shaffer was fascinated by the ability of language to reveal, conceal and distort the workings of a person's mind and desires. In Sleuth he created a Chinese-box plot that on the surface was a very theatrical mystery, but at heart was a parable of sexual envy and English class hatred. Again, right up Pinter's dark alley...
DIED. Betty Comden, 89, sophisticated, witty wordsmith who, with rumpled collaborator Adolph Green, helped create stage musicals like On the Town, Bells Are Ringing and The Will Rogers Follies and wrote screenplays for such seminal MGM films as Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon; in New York City. Throughout a 60-year career, the pair, who were not married to each other, worked every day, mostly in the living room of Comden's Manhattan apartment, composing stories and lyrics for the likes of Leonard Bernstein and Jule Styne and seamlessly adapting them to music that ranged from bouncy...
When discerning observers noticed that his words had power, they often assumed that someone else must have written them. His Secretary of State, William H. Seward, was a noted orator and wordsmith who was thought to have had a hand in Lincoln's first Inaugural. That was in fact true, but few of Seward's suggested changes were stylistic improvements, and we know from the manuscript that his chief contribution--a more conciliatory ending--was brilliantly rewritten by Lincoln. The Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, was sometimes thought to be responsible for Lincoln's best work, and occasionally...
...wrote "The Ear" column for the Washington Star and the Washington Post and then "Diana Hears" for the Washington Times), has quit after a decade of nibbling her way to the top. "Gossip is now on the front pages," she says wistfully. An amateur artist as well as a wordsmith, she has gone on to paint and write novels...
...been recording since 1991, when he worked as a nurse in Southern California. His reputation grew throughout the 90s as a lo-fi avatar, recording his erudite and sometimes recherché love songs on department store boom-boxes. He has since gained wider repute for his talent as a wordsmith and songwriter. In 2002 he joined the esteemed roster of famed British label 4AD, alma mater of the Pixies, Throwing Muses, and Cocteau Twins. Tallahassee, the first release on his new label, was a concept album that concretized the “alpha-series,” a smattering...