Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nevertheless, he is ready to face those "discerning" New York audiences, he says, despite his acting anxieties. "I had this very Noel Coward idea that I'd drift into the theater at 6 o'clock and then at no expense perform my little piece," he says. "Then I would go off for dinner in fashionable restaurants with groups of friends." He laughs a great honking laugh. "I've not once, ever, been able to go out to dinner with anybody after the show--not even my children...
...first with Jean, then with his own family. Jean, the youngest and most vulnerable member of the family, becomes the toughest of the three siblings, "the only person in the world who scares me more than...Billy," according to Ray. Ray and his mother, however, react by becoming "rotten coward[s]," ignoring whatever they can and later taking refuge in long-term romantic relationships in an attempt to imitate normality...
...slide along the paint slime on the floor to the next barricade. A battery of shots ring through the air, attacking the fort behind which I crouch. I begin to wonder why I volunteered for this assignment. I'm a writer, not a fighter. So I take the coward's way out. I purposely let myself...
...earthy contrast to them. But viewers are still supposed to find the Crane boys sophisticated and lovable and ever ready with the withering riposte. Au contraire, they are often insufferable. Too frequently Grammer and Pierce adopt the mannerisms and voices of two actors in a provincial production of Noel Coward, working themselves to death. The other members of the cast, including Dan Butler as sportscaster "Bulldog" Briscoe, are likable enough, but the brothers dominate...
...hunched in the backseat of a speeding Jeep Grand Cherokee, Fieger didn't seem in the mood to sit quietly through a holy event. It would only interrupt his nonstop rant about the shortcomings of his opponent, Republican incumbent John Engler. "He's a cheater, a liar and a coward," said Fieger. "He's a man of mediocre intelligence who's never done anything in life but suck off the public trough." The Engler camp, meanwhile, is clinging desperately to higher ground. "Fieger can roll in the mud by himself," says John Truscott, an Engler spokesman...