After making his acting breakthrough in the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie, Borgnine gained his first major film role in From Here to Eternity in 1953, playing a sadistic sergeant who beats up Frank Sinatra's character, Private Angelo Maggio.

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In particular, Mr Burnham said he feared the new freedom for hospitals to earn 49% of their income from private work would "damage the character and culture" of the NHS and take it closer to an American model.

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The department stores that are left have developed character and images of their own through exclusive designers and private labels.

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In the popular World War II cartoon strip The Sad Sack, the character was a naive, confused, lazy, bumbling private, but happy enough and almost lovable.

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Just last season, Kate Walsh's character on Grey's Anatomy landed her own spin-off, Private Practice.

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As to character, there is no hint of unhappiness or rejection in the easeful Blair passage from private school to Oxford to barrister's chambers.

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