Word: bookworm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...given the well-deserved chance to shine after multiple chorus roles in previous A.R.T. productions. Chiorini gives Matt just the right amount of nervous intellectualism, endearing earnesty and Oedipal anxiety, and Fox-Long utilizes multiple effective tactics to move her character back and forth between pouting brat, self-conscious bookworm and self-sacrificial saint...
Reading horribilious accounts of the wet, wide and awful while remaining safe, snug and dry may be a bookworm's naughty perversion. Or call it simple good sense to do one's seafaring while seated and ashore. At any rate, in this boating season armchair mariners have an unusually good selection of chilling watery chronicles to keep them landlocked...
...serious. I was a bookworm," he says."If I had to do it over, I would have laughedmore, smiled more...
...authentic portrait of Columbus done from life exists, but there are verbal descriptions: tall, a long face, ruddy skin, reddish hair that turned white in middle age. Adopting Spain as his homeland in 1484, Columbus was never to use Italian in his writings. But he soon became bookworm enough to be seen as an amateur geographer as well as a mariner, and to accumulate a large library. Alas, only four of these volumes survive with his annotations...