Word: raconteur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biographer, historian, editor and critic, Peter Quennell has been one of England's radiant literary lights for more than half a century. He is also an assiduous collector and chronicler of eccentrics, a pointillist of foible, a raconteur without fear or peer. His latest memoir, drawn mostly from the '20s and '30s, is named Customs and Characters...
Author-Editor-Raconteur-Gadfly William F. Buckley Jr. has already delighted friends and charmed critics with his account of a joyous transatlantic sail in Airborne (1976). So why, five years later, is Buckley charting the same course? Because, as he explains, "the wedding night is never enough." Or, to put it less metaphorically, the first trip and book were so successful that Buckley could not resist the temptation to set sail all over again...
...Doctor," reproves the Black Lion of Uganda, "for an African you are looking very white." Statesman, sportsman, raconteur, eccentric gourmet, General Idi Amin Dada made a lot of people blanch in his eight years as Uganda's dictator. With Amin now in asylum in Saudi Arabia, Director Sharad Patel has felt free to turn this biopic into a minstrel show of atrocity. Amin struts across his domain like Kong with a salad of Day-Glo medals pinned to his chest. Amin expels Asian workers from Uganda and distributes the spoils to his private army of hitmen. Amin services...
Monte Noelke, a rancher and another of Tankersley's great-great-grandchildren, is a raconteur with Homeric talents and the family's sidelong sense of humor. Monte has decided that he ought to start a business transplanting mesquite trees and selling them as immense houseplants to people in New Jersey...
...saga of the melting pot might rest as the most endearing of America's legends to its people, but only the most skilled raconteur of folklore could possibly weave the country's many pasts into a common present. The vestiges of a divided history appear all around us: ethnic differences often distinguish rioting, mob violence, and political lobbying as they do styles of eating and dressing. Yet, the vast divergence in living standards afflicting the country remains as the most constant reminder of our schizophrenic heritage. A visit to Roxbury or South Boston will show which ethnic group...