Word: enigma
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...subject, if she emerges as less than an enigma she remains just as much of a wonder. The writer of great gifts who does not quite know what he wants his book to be circles a lady of great gifts who has not never quite known what she wanted her life to be. "Entertaining," she once said about herself. It still applies, to the achiever and her admirer. -By Melvin Maddocks
...strange breed of show that provokes laughter, applause, foot-tapping and even a standing ovation and still, beyond a doubt, flops. Purlie, Leverett House and Black CAST's current offering, offers just such an enigma. This rambunctious musical comedy about race relations in the last-1950s South had a respectable Broadway run and has since bubbled cheerfully on numerous regional and school stages. Purlie's infectious and vigorous score, its complement of genuinely funny lines ("College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back") and its unassailable but not over-bearing message...
...enigma of playing the offensive line that the better you do your job, the better it looks for somebody else. But Cash is used to anonymity--he's been playing under it all his life...
...convey an obscure, flighty vulnerability, always looking away from the camera and Smithson. And always she has at her disposal that piercing stare--a private look that lets the inner fires shine through the private mists. She builds an impenetrable wall around herself, riddle within mystery inside enigma, and then pierces it with that glance...
...know the great depth of my affection for him." Of his wife Mamie and his son John he said almost nothing. The diaries, and the histories that are now emerging, are be ginning to reveal Eisenhower, the adept politician. The man behind the smile remains an enigma still...