Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank Kermode, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, discussed the relationship between plot and character, dealing primarily with the role of Judas in the passion of the New Testament.
Back at the ranch, Big John Connally's younger brother and former campaign manager is sitting pretty. After landing two movie roles, including a bit part in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the cattleman has turned novelist. The hero is a retired Texas politician summoned to Washington to...
In short, Andy Schmidt is a showoff, a permanent elbow in the eye of polite society. One can only be awed by the comic daring of everyone concerned with The One and Only for trying to make such a character appealing for the length of a movie. The One and...
The movie is content to look back at wrestling's tacky milieu without trying to score any pretentious, socially significant points. It also leaves Andy happy with celebrity at any price, and that may be a mistake. Winkler's essential intelligence shines through anything he does, and it...
Olive and Mary Anne seems unlikely to win the author a vast new public. Audiences will be attracted by another, larger project. NBC has plans for a high-budget miniseries based on Studs Lonigan-a kind of Hibernian Roots. The notion of commercial television popularizing an old radical is an...