His best memory of Capote is as a master raconteur.
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Mary isn't just a master notary—she is also a skilled raconteur.
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In person, Tom proved to be an extraordinary raconteur, teacher and intellectual.
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If Mr. Trump had picked a fiery raconteur like Newt Gingrich or Gov.
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A prominent writer and raconteur in Hong Kong and Britain, he was 63.
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He was a raconteur whose life slowly and then quickly careered off the rails.
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In her day, Newton had been a splendid raconteur, with friends like Shirley Chisholm.
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Mr. Lilly was known as a raconteur whose conversations often began with a joke.
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For a thrice-married former raconteur, the Trump first family appears remarkably stable, and loyal.
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He was an eccentric, charismatic Yosemite climber and raconteur who had crept into mainstream consciousness.
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He has the animated manner of a raconteur who has long been starved of listeners.
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The idea was tweeted out in August by former Congressman and alt-right raconteur Joe Walsh.
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His father, Stewart McDonald, was an actor, barefoot water-skier, race-car driver and reputed raconteur.
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A compendium of geologic jokes, he refers to himself not as a raconteur but a rockconteur.
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Mr. Sexton, with hollow cheeks and graceful hands, is a sly jokester and a bewitching raconteur.
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And they all fall into a few types of questioners, from the craftsman to the raconteur.
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A gifted writer, tough businessman, superb athlete and impressive raconteur, he was also a quick study.
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But he is also a vastly better raconteur than most other writers playing the explication game.
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An entertaining raconteur with a deadpan sense of humor, he was determined to rehabilitate his image.
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"Money," said Mr. Foreman, a born raconteur who speaks in long paragraphs peppered with Cockney slang.
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The popular journalist and affable raconteur Jamal Khashoggi had been killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
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There was voltage in his eyes: He was a storied raconteur; women wanted to be around him.
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Light skinned with reddish hair, Mr. Franklin was a raconteur who relished being the center of attention.
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Finally, a small group of us gathered to start the tour, led by our young raconteur, Jessica.
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Ms. MacLaine is just as happy holding attention as a raconteur, a walking compendium of Hollywood lore.
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He certainly had a big personality; his quick wit and talent as a raconteur entertained many an audience.
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Burnett is an avid raconteur, and his anecdotes about his life tend to have a three-act structure.
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The filmmaker, raconteur and activist Michael Moore remains staunch, but his solo performance is yielding its Broadway berth.
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The filmmaker, raconteur and activist Michael Moore remains stanch, but his solo performance is yielding its Broadway berth.
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This Inky is a raconteur and a patient opportunist who escapes on a dare from his tankmate, Blotchy.
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He's an affable if mordant raconteur, and his concerts can feel like a kind of seminar in themselves.
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And of course, Munchausen is a raconteur extraordinaire, filled with tall tales and very much full of himself.
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On Baseball Baseball is a funny game, said Joe Garagiola, the old catcher and raconteur who died last month.
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She remains a tart-tongued raconteur, intent as ever on burnishing or, if need be, entirely revising her legend.
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Friends described Mr. Bassiouni as a magnetic speaker and a gregarious host and raconteur who loved wine and music.
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She was a Bronx-born raconteur and was the first of a tightly knit circle of five to pass.
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In retrospect, it was the beginning of Mr. Letterman's late-career phase, when he moved from prankster to raconteur.
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The Moth's closest friend, The Darter, an ex-boxer, is a smuggler and raconteur who takes Nathaniel under his wing.
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His own father, a plumber by trade, was an epic raconteur but not, to my knowledge, much of a reader.
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He still is, in fact, having made a successful career for himself as a boisterous raconteur on Australia's Fox Sports.
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A raconteur who regaled visitors with tales of his childhood and the music business, Mr. Hurricane reveled in his fame.
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Greg Grant, a horticulturalist and raconteur, is restoring the rural Texas homestead where his family has lived for five generations.
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The man that boy has become is lean, angular and painstakingly thoughtful, with the polished charm of a professional raconteur.
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Mr. Shepherd is a most engaging raconteur who transforms small stories of everyday life into tall tales of fantastic adventure.
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He was a delightful raconteur, a thoughtful and generous host, and never saw milk he couldn't turn into a shake.
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Edgar Oliver, the eerie raconteur and one-man Gothic novel, returns to Axis with a new work of solo storytelling.
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Lucie Pohl proves to be a delightful raconteur in "Hi, Hitler," her one-woman show at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
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Myers is a warmly gregarious raconteur, though, and his take was pity-free, full of admiration for the child's ingenuity.
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Zacks's engaging account of Twain's travels shows the raconteur at his best and his worst: charming, childish, ribald, and intemperate.
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"He was a real raconteur," said Ms. Siegler, a graphic designer who runs her own company, Eight and a Half.
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He is an affable raconteur, with a droll sense of humor and a clear-eyed view of himself and his town.
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Christian Frederick Martin IV is a genial, mellow raconteur who shouldn't be mistaken for a man who doesn't know his business.
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Livingroom is an interesting guy, an author and a raconteur who is a little myth and a lot of shoe game.
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I like the Louisiana version that Kim Severson scored from the New Orleans raconteur Pableaux Johnson, for red beans and rice.
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In Spanish, however, his full talents as a sardonic raconteur are on display; he's even prone to the occasional philosophical soliloquy.
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The audio of his narration suffices at first, but visual takes of the protagonist as raconteur lengthen as the film progresses.
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He can be an ornery cuss, fighting to do things as he wants, or a generous teammate and a riveting raconteur.
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Dr. Jordan is clearly charmed by Grace, who mends clothes while telling her story with the ease of a skilled raconteur.
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Babbitt's rapid-fire compositions also echo his reputation as a virtuoso raconteur, one whose purview included comprehensive knowledge of baseball and beer.
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After telling her that Mr. Hopkins had won, Mr. Sugar added that his father, Bert Sugar, was a boxing authority and raconteur.
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If you're in southern California, catch his latest exhibition "The Artist, the Raconteur & His Blowtorch" at Galerie Michael in Beverly Hills in June.
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The title is derived from Reiner, the comedy maven and raconteur, who relates a story about seeing himself featured in someone else's obituary.
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Mr. Credico is a rambling raconteur with a history of drug and alcohol problems — "the whole '90s I was doing cocaine," he said.
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Ms. Pomsel was once invited to dinner at the Goebbels's villa and seated next to her boss, a raconteur who regaled the table.
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"I have hundreds of unopened emails, and I rarely open emails from strangers," said Mr. Watson, in person a disarmingly ungrizzled, even jolly raconteur.
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Both in the pages of his book and in person, Moore, the only child of a policeman and a homemaker, is a cheeky raconteur.
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Hosted by the comedian Lynn Bixenspan and the raconteur Morgan Pielli, this event features guests who perform regularly on New York's comedy club stages.
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They reveal Mr. Sweat as an enthusiastic raconteur, eager to regale his questioners with his backwoods accomplishments and his MacGyver-like skills of improvisation.
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Its nostalgic, lightly witty style evokes influences that have been dead even longer, like the raconteur Jean Shepherd and the sophisticated stylist Robert Benchley.
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On the flip side was television analyst-cum-hoops raconteur Charles Barkley, who absolutely could not contain himself: Thrill of victory... Agony of defeat.
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Alcohol did not make John a charismatic raconteur; it made him a lonely, self-pitying sad sack estranged from his wife and two grown children.
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A masterful raconteur with a forceful flow, he chronicled neighborhood street life in stylized, almost cinematic detail, from corner drug deals to fractured family negotiations.
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He was a good raconteur; still, most of the stories he told me were about checkpoints, a Palestinian vein of narrative that is almost inescapable.
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If Mr. Nichols was the life of any party, the most riveting raconteur I ever met, Mr. Mantello's charm is more low-key and shy.
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But look beyond Fury the raconteur and you'll see Fury the magician — one who has his opponents spell-bound by his box-and-move tricks.
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The baritone Igor Golovatenko, in yet another company debut, was a dignified Prince Yeletsky; the baritone Alexey Markov, a suavely superb raconteur as Count Tomsky.
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But in addition to the many hats he juggled as an entertainer — song and dance man, actor, impressionist, raconteur — Davis became a civil rights activist.
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In his memoir, Abramoff described Erickson as a "tall, thin raconteur" who "successfully hypnotized most of Washington's official media" when he worked with the College Republicans.
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Somewhat predictably, the narrative hangs on father issues, but Mr. Dengler is a genial raconteur, and we rarely encounter his kind of experience at the theater.
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A cigar-smoking raconteur, Mr. Burke also ran his police department, with about 2,300 officers, in a manner at odds with the latest police management journals.
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" That's how the mononymous fifty-four-year-old rocker and raconteur announced himself, electric guitar in hand, at the start of his musical memoir, "Passing Strange.
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Directed by his onetime partner and longtime friend, Sean Mathias, McKellen is a jolly raconteur who engages as readily with the audience as he does with Shakespeare.
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If anything, Fisker was a more flamboyant and compelling personality that Musk; I've talked to him on several occassions, and his talents as a raconteur are formidable.
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As a performance artist and raconteur who regularly contributes to the storytelling project The Moth, Mr. Oliver has emerged as a sui generis bard of urban solitude.
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" Low regard by key aides: "He spoke obliviously and happily, believing himself to be a perfect pitch raconteur and public performer, while everyone with him held their breath.
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Accel's younger brother, Gerardo, had long been the more talkative one, a raconteur and joke teller who broke into long discourses about the history he learned at school.
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I wish I could paint you a picture of myself as a jet-setting raconteur who plays hard and writes about the many exciting episodes that befall him.
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Ms. Plimpton, a youthful woman now of a certain age, raised twin daughters in the apartment with her much older husband, the patrician raconteur, ringleader and fireworks lover.
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A lifelong diarist with an eye for detail, he was in his element in front of the full-house Bafta crowd, unfurling career anecdotes like a seasoned raconteur.
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Ms. Eisenberg, host of the NPR quiz show "Ask Me Another," is a popular stand-up and raconteur, equally skilled at short, sharp jokes and carefully planned stories.
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William is portrayed by Mr. Kitson, a British raconteur of elaborately groomed shaggy-dog stories that have earned him a devoted following among fans of stand-up theater.
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In addition to its raconteur approach to explaining diamonds and precious metal work, Diva has been trying to promote local artisans and diamond merchants in its retail operation.
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Derek DelGaudio, the creator and star of the stealthily entrancing solo show "In & Of Itself," is a magician, a raconteur, a Conceptual artist and conceivably a mind reader.
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You can read and even act (sort of) in children's stories using Story Time, an AR feature that makes one caller a raconteur and the other an audience member.
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These speeches had some of the delegates hanging on to their every word, every bit as rapt as anyone was to legendary raconteur Bill Clinton later in the night.
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He is a bartender and raconteur of the highest order, so let him regale you, as he did I, with tales of rock 'n roll, crime, survival, and tiki.
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As his 1989 book "Malaria Dreams" (a travel book masquerading as a comic novel or vice versa) demonstrated, Mr. Stevens is a terrific raconteur — funny, observant and highly entertaining.
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In season 2 of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, we can expect to learn more about Ambrose's past as a raconteur warlock who taught Houdini magic and painted with Surrealists.
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An extraordinary raconteur with a Southern drawl, he also knew when to listen, especially when in the company of some of the sharpest breeders and horsemen in the sport.
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It gets at the glorious raconteur Ms. Reynolds clearly was, as well as how ill-suited for real life she might have been, at least according to her daughter.
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But it was in his second career, on television, that Bourdain came to be more than a foul-mouthed raconteur with a string of unhygienic anecdotes about the food service industry.
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Ms. Chase's husband, Dooky Chase, died last week at 88, so we'll cook in his honor, with a heartfelt nod toward turkey gumbo's fiercest champion, the New Orleans raconteur Pableaux Johnson.
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His novel "Solibo Magnifique" investigates the murder of a legendary raconteur, while the Prix Goncourt-winning "Texaco" tells Martinique's history through the epic origin story of a Fort-de-France shantytown.
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When he'd tell stories about, say, his drinking buddy Richard Burton (which he would do often; he was a first-class raconteur), he'd do it with a pretty good Burton impression.
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His big break came when he portrayed the gay writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp in the mid-1970s television play "The Naked Civil Servant," which was adapted from Crisp's autobiography, IMDb said.
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"The problem is that kids these days, you sit them down and start being a raconteur, and their eyes glaze over because their attention spans are that of a gnat," he said.
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What can be said is that the Ms. Mulligan we see at the close of the uninterrupted 90 minutes has an altogether different aspect from the freewheeling raconteur seen at the start.
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Like Ms. Rubin-Vega's subterranean dweller and the charismatic psychopath Tom Hewitt played in Mr. Mark's "Another Medea," Sharon is an entertaining raconteur whose ordinary life has taken a Grand Guignol turn.
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A few minutes later, Kenda appeared on stage to whoops and hollers, ready to tell stories of long-ago homicide detective exploits in the unscripted raconteur style that catapulted him into genre celebrity.
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Scrutinizing Gauguin as rapacious sexual louche, self-promotional plagiarist and loquacious raconteur may be no fun, but it's part of the ongoing meditation on how to regard effectual art made by flawed men.
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A natural raconteur, Hempton has a backwoodsman's frame and ruddy face, close-cropped hair and beard more salt than pepper, and regularly body-surfs along the rugged coastline of the north Olympic Peninsula.
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This year brings art and architecture lectures, an evening with raconteur David Sedaris, a big-band performance, and offerings from the Palm Springs International Dance Festival and the Palm Springs Gay Men's Chorus.
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HEADS UP The hotels offer would-be bons vivants and lovers of 19th-century French literature the kind of lodgings that recall the raconteur-filled salons in the novels of Honore de Balzac.
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Some attendees at his events in Iowa last week said Mr. Biden, who overcame a childhood stutter, is a relatable raconteur whose decades of experience are comforting amid the chaos of the Trump era.
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A raconteur with a sharp memory who tells unlikely narratives that prove to be true, he frequently interrupts others, offering profuse apologies while doing so, and takes charge of conversations with the utmost graciousness.
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He's an old-fashioned raconteur: He peppers his conversation with references to "the old days" and the kind of New Jersey jokes that would have been at home on SNL in its earliest episodes.
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The Moth StorySLAM (Tuesday) The Moth, widely regarded as the gold standard (if not go-to) storytelling franchise, presents a competitive evening in which one winning raconteur is named from a pool of 10 storytellers.
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I can imagine Miller, a renowned raconteur, carrying on with these bright lights of Greece, drinking retsina, a local variety of cheap white wine, as he was shown ancient sites in Corfu, Athens and Delphi.
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Visiting interviewers, expecting an Old Etonian wit and raconteur, maybe even a theorist of the nonintrusive, unexplaining novel, found instead a dazed, haunted figure—or, in Michael Holroyd's recollection, a body asleep on the staircase.
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Reading his book is like being at the bar of Raffles with a veteran raconteur who has not expended quite enough effort determining which of his oft-told tales are profound and which a bit pointless.
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Watching this production's overtaxed ensemble perform vignettes from different musicals, in an oppressive succession of themed wigs and costumes, is like hearing a rushed raconteur drop name after famous name, without bothering to explain their significance.
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A raconteur and self-taught chef, Mr. Santiago had spent days at the end of February preparing fish, chicken, tacos and pasteles, the Puerto Rican specialty, for the party celebrating his new apartment at 175 Delancey Street.
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"He was a great raconteur, who knew so much about so many things like wine and art," said Frank A. Bennack Jr., executive vice chairman and former chief executive of Hearst, who was a friend of Mr. Bergerac.
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As Abramović effortlessly holds court with Harry onstage, before 500 enthusiastic (and audible) admirers, I witness many more Marinas: Marina the guru, Marina the interviewer, Marina the therapist, Marina the raconteur, the guide, the stand-up, the teacher.
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He is a restaurateur to the titans of finance and a raconteur whose own wanton conduct — a sexual abuse case that ended in a misdemeanor plea — makes him something of a smudged window into an otherwise opaque world.
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The raconteur who charmingly burbles during drinks is tapped out of stories by the time the oysters arrive; the genius who wears his erudition so lightly over appetizers starts clubbing you over the head with it during dessert.
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In "The Naked Civil Servant" (1975), seen first on television in England, he was Quentin Crisp, a flame-haired raconteur and social butterfly whose forthright flamboyance as a gay man helped push the acceptance of homosexuality in Britain.
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He is a restaurateur to the titans of finance and a raconteur whose own wanton conduct — a sexual abuse case that ended in a misdemeanor plea — makes him something of a smudged window into an otherwise an opaque world.
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SHANGHAI, China — David Tang, the founder of Shanghai Tang, a global chain of flashy emporiums of Chinese-inspired clothing, accessories and home furnishings, and a prominent writer and raconteur in Hong Kong and Britain, died on Tuesday in London.
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Bergvall, a Franco-Norwegian performance poet, is also a scholar of medieval English literature: the "Alisoun" of Alisoun Sings is of course Chaucer's Wife of Bath, that gap-toothed, outspoken, and wonderfully libidinous ("Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve") raconteur.
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The older of two unnamed brothers is almost 11 and a born raconteur; the younger brother, who narrates the story with the preternatural insight of neglected children, is almost 9 and living in the shadow of his more adventurous sibling.
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It's an old-school celebration by the sea: This free show, presented by the City Parks Foundation, brings together two of the late 1980s' most influential rap acts: the cool, calm duo EPMD and the English-accented raconteur Slick Rick.
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Tim Burton applies his gloriously strange touch to Ransom Riggs's book about the curious adventures of Jake (Asa Butterfield), a Florida youth with an aversion to sunshine, and his raconteur grandfather, Abe (Terence Stamp), who entertains him with fabulous tales.
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"'Fengming' stands alongside first-person precedents like Shirley Clarke's 'Portrait of Jason' (1967) and Errol Morris's 'The Fog of War' (2004) in its ability to wrest powerful effects from the deceptively simple setup of a lone raconteur," the critic Ed Halter wrote.
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Rather, it's a collection of reminiscences (some, familiar from published essays) that provide glimpses of the author over the years, hopping and skipping through time, and recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur — by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.
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A gifted raconteur, he told stories — how the director Frank Capra had pitched James Stewart on starring in "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), the trouble Orson Welles had wearing the peg leg he used when he portrayed Long John Silver in "Treasure Island" (1972).
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See, Gillian and I took our cue from rock and roll raconteur Danny Fields, when he said that all the rock stars he knew—Jim Morrison, Nico, Iggy, the Ramones—were a bunch of assholes, as well as the most charming, charismatic, and funny people he ever met.
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He was also a gentleman, a scholar, a great raconteur – all of those things and much more to generations of colleagues, his legion of friends, and his family, to whom all of us at CBS offer our sincerest condolences over the loss of one of CBS' and journalism's greatest treasures.
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He was also a gentleman, a scholar, a great raconteur — all of those things and much more to generations of colleagues, his legion of friends, and his family, to whom all of us at CBS offer our sincerest condolences over the loss of one of CBS' and journalism's greatest treasures.
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Raconteur or fabulist, Abe likes to amble down a twisting memory lane, telling tales about the monsters he fought in the war or the children's home in Wales where bees buzzed in a boy's head and a girl named Emma (Ella Purnell) floated as light as a leaf on the wind.
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There are actual arguments here, often brilliant ones, on the Holocaust writer H. G. Adler; the Czech novelist and raconteur Bohumil Hrabal; the French experimentalist and Oulipian Georges Perec, a collateral descendant of the Yiddish literary giant I. L. Peretz; as well as on Mahler, Shakespeare, Vargas Llosa and others.
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Though the nattily attired dandies and haughty aristocrats (for the most part) have faded into history, their mansions have survived offering would-be bons vivants and lovers of 2390th-century French literature the kind of accommodations that recall the raconteur-filled salons chronicled in the novels of Honoré de Balzac.
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I hope that these simultaneous tributes will help Mr. Knight achieve his proper berth in history: not just as a creator of a character that is now arguably over-franchised, with subpar movie and television adaptations and cheesy tea parties, but as a champion fantasist, raconteur and observer of society.
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" In a rabid 1952 letter to critic Harold Rosenberg in response to a review in Art News, Still wrote: "One does not just shit on the floor, break furniture, indulge in Eighth street gutter epithets after trying to impress one's public with the moral and intellectual principles of a reformed salon raconteur.
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Whatever you cook, though, make sure you save your turkey carcass to make stock, so you can follow the lead of that great New Orleans raconteur and cook Pableaux Johnson and use that broth to make gumbo — Paul Prudhomme's version this year, I think, with the last of the turkey meat and a whole bunch of Andouille.
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" Stephen Holden, in a 1990 review in The New York Times of Mr. La Rosa's engagement at Rainbow and Stars in Manhattan, wrote: "Boisterously exuberant and remarkably unsentimental for a singer who came of age with romantic balladeers like Tony Bennett and Vic Damone, he approached almost everything he sang with the easygoing confidence of a raconteur providing illuminating slants on familiar stories.
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Brothers Evan and Emery Huang, founders of Batu Capital Brothers Evan and Emery Huang, founders of Batu Capital Restaurateur and raconteur Eddie Huang is the best known of the three "Fresh off the Boat" brothers (it was his memoir that inspired the ABC sitcom), but his younger brothers Emery and Evan remain relatively mysterious even to its most loyal viewers.
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Actor, author and raconteur William Shatner, who played James T. Kirk for a quarter of a century, may have worn the most electric variety — though, based on our research, it's Patrick Stewart who probably wore the widest array of styles as Captain Jean Luc Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987 to 1994 (the original series only ran three years) and in a series of movies up until 2002.
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" — were on brand for the 70-year-old New York native who enjoyed a 15-year career in Major League Baseball before America entered World War II.Sports columnist John Kieran called Berg "The Professor" on account of his reputation as an Ivy League-educated linguist and lawyer, a mentor and coach to younger MLB players, and a newspaper-devouring raconteur who earned fanfare as a repeat contestant on the NBC radio quiz show "Information Please.
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