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...idiosyncratic to its author that a couple of minutes suffice to identify it as his. This quicksilver gift of language, joined with an almost infinite slyness about the tricky uses to which words can be put, makes Mamet a superb entertainer. He is a sort of American version of Harold Pinter, but funnier, raunchier and with a keener sense of the particularities of time and place...
...Harold Clurman, a director of the Group Theater, informed Kazan that his only gift was excessive energy. But that, of course, is a quality too often underestimated by intellectuals. Combined with his survivor's shrewdness in observing the behavior that betrays motives, it is what gave his productions both realism and driving power. Above all, it is what enabled him to survive the contempt heaped on him after his HUAC testimony. This is how he remembers his interior monologue at the time, addressed to his critics: "You can't hurt me; you haven't penetrated my guard; I can beat...
There're too many people dying on the streets," said John S. Prinsinzano, who has been homeless for eight years. Harold W. Stoe, who works as a security officer, lives at a Boston shelter. "It's more difficult to find a decent residence here than anywhere else," he said...
...theater you finally develop a whole, and your energy is put into rhythm and pacing. In film, you must be ready at any time for 'takeoff,'" Hunt said during a question and answer session following a screening of her televised performance in Harold Pinter's play, "The Room...
Last September the Conde Nast empire, publisher of Vanity Fair, Vogue and Gourmet, among others, spent $40 million launching the upmarket Traveler for those who prefer to go where there are civil ways and no civil wars. Under former Times of London Editor Harold Evans, Traveler (circ. 853,490) boasts of its "muscle and vision" -- ratings of not only the world's best restaurants but also the worst, stories more analytical than promotional. Evans touts his magazine's "truth in travel" policy and sniffs at competitor Travel & Leisure as "one seamless travelogue, where all headwaiters...