Example sentences for: capote

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  • And then there are the bellybuttons: On one page Truman Capote, no longer the slender, bow-tied manchild Avedon had photographed a decade earlier, pulls open his dark shirt to show his navel, a winking eye in an expanse of pale flesh.

  • Book -- Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career , by George Plimpton;

  • Most critics take the opportunity to sum up Capote's career: They recall with regret that Capote spent more time schmoozing than writing, and deem his work less memorable than his social appearances, particularly at his fabled 1966 "Black and White Ball" and on the Tonight Show . Critics also chide Plimpton for rehashing, rather than investigating, old accusations, such as Capote's alleged lying and drinking problems.

  • The New Yorker excerpts George Plimpton's forthcoming biography of Truman Capote to tell the story behind Capote's In Cold Blood , the "factional" account of a 1959 murder in Kansas, which appeared in the magazine in 1965.


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