Word: conversationalist
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...Picasso is dead. Brakhage is alive and healthy in Hunt Hall tonight. He will show films made within the past two years including The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes, The Riddle of Lumen, The Myth of Phos, and his Sexual Meditation series. An involving, often brilliant conversationalist, Brakhage successfully bridges the experiential gap between his films and their audiences when he verbalizes those personal meanings hiding between the layers of abstraction...
...work, and it quickly became apparent that James Park Sloan, like his newest book, is exceedingly deceptive in appearance. The volume, a slim work, is a structural gem, finely conceived, and aptly polished. Likewise, the author's unhurried, Southern manner conceals a dynamic intellectual personality and an impassioned conversationalist...
...truth seems to be that Gallo was leading a schizophrenic life in those last days: a steel-tough gunman in racket circles; a philosophic, warm conversationalist outside the Mob. Whether he was really at home in both roles, or just a good actor, he was clearly convincing. Actress Joan Hackett found him fascinating well before she knew of his Mafia connections. "I liked him completely apart from any grotesque glamorization of the underworld," she recalls. "I thought his attempt to leave that life was genuine. He was the brightest person I've ever known." But Gallo also conceded that...
Scott is an animated conversationalist. He uses his hands his arms, his voice, his inflection to make points, as a good actor will: "The best directors either should be good actors or should understand actors--very few directors...
Never an intellectual or a particularly brilliant conversationalist, Frederik IX reigned with easygoing informality. From the Amalienborg Palace, he often watched steamers leaving Copenhagen, and sometimes, using a flashlight, he would signal greetings in Morse code to the captain. Bicycling through the Tivoli Gardens one morning, he stopped to chat with an American tourist. "I'm a storekeeper from Chicago," said the tourist. "Who are you?" "Oh-I'm the King," replied Frederik...