Word: extravert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...performances, are unusually shrewd keyhole glimpses of U.S. provincial life. Sonny Tufts's transformation from a big, pleasant male ingenue to a resourceful actor is as impressive as it is startling. With plenty of assistance from script and direction, Tufts gives a cruelly recognizable portrait of a neurotic extravert: a type all too common in real life and all too rarely seen-through on the screen...
...little angel seems to turn to demon overnight. For Six, life is duplex. He seesaws between yes & no, love & hate, laughter & tears, chocolate & vanilla. A tough first-grade teacher who insists on his learning the three Rs may give Six a stomachache; he would rather play games. This little extravert loves praise, can't stand criticism, frequently confuses "thine" with "mine...
...complicated plot of Easy to Wed is oddly obtrusive for a musical. Van Johnson, whose millions of avid fans were first won by his freckle-nosed, boyish charm, is woefully miscast as a professional wolf who makes a living by compromising ladies. Only Comedienne Lucille Ball, a brash, bubbling extravert who is frequently used to bolster up badly contrived Hollywood farces, remains unfazed and funny through...
West With The Night is a tough, un even, undisciplined, sometimes remarkable, often annoying book-chiefly about Aviatrix Beryl Markham's experiences in the hot blue skies and green hills of Africa. Author Markham reveals herself as a self-made extravert, a museum sample of 20th-century primitivism at its simplest. Her harsh, keen story is a sort of Diana myth brought up to date...
Rubens lived in an age when it was possible for an extravert to be a great painter, and for a great painter to be a great success. He took every advantage of it. He was a cagey businessman, among businessmen who knew and valued good painting when they saw it. He was an apt amateur diplomat in a day when diplomacy was not quite a profession. He was a prodigious worker (average: four to five days per painting, all his life), and he ordered his life to that end. He never drank nor gambled, seldom lunged at his models...