Word: characterize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Rebellion is a natural outgrowth of the Polish character-ebullient, romantic, ready to defend national pride at the drop of a kapelusz, and ironic enough to look forward to a potent drink right afterward. Sums up a Polish woman: "We can only be compared with the Irish." A Western diplomat...
"Acting is much like professional football," observes Norman Mailer, writer and sometime thespian. So when it came time to film his big scene in the movie Ragtime-wherein his character, Architect Stanford White, is assassinated by Millionaire Harry K. Thaw (Robert Joy)-the star got the pre-game jitters, "not...
For the record, Brando is the character wearing granny glasses and a hearing aid, the one whose fringe of white hair curls cunningly around a large bald spot and whose corpulence is encased in a wardrobe that seems to have been picked up at a thrift sale managed by the...
Daniel Stern (who played the gangliest "cutter" in Breaking Away) fixes his character with a goofy, all-American grin that, by play's end, has become an eerie, all too American grimace. Bob Gunton (Perón in the Broadway Evita) is a pinwheel of energy and Cheshire-cat...
The author had a sentimental fascination for the raffish life of New York and Paris. His best-known character is Colonel John R. Stingo, a bombastic Tunes Square denizen. But Liebling is best remembered by other journalists for his enviable style. In 1972 More, The New York Journalism Review congratulated...