Word: attics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good deal of Attic bawdry is left out. Graves mentions that Queen Omphale once bought Heracles as a slave, but does not add that Heracles was the Queen's lover and that the two of them deceived the lustful Pan by dressing Heracles in one of Omphale's gowns and decoying the god into a darkened grotto. Such goatly matters as remain are dealt with by an adroit blending of taste and truth, e.g., "Demeter had been rather wild as a girl, and nobody could remember the name of Persephone's father; probably some country god married...
...Arts will be represented by award winning playwright Lillian Hellman, whose latest work, "Toys in the Attic" is currently in its second season on Broad-way. Miss Hellman has spoken at the University in the past, and will be a Visiting Lecturer on English in the Spring...
...atribute this in part to its superb settings and photography, that deepen its mood of terror and melodrama. Bergman's regular designer, P.A. Lundgren, has placed a surrealistic sequence near the film's end, in a claustrophobic attic stacked with canvasses, sculptures, and decayed bits of ornate furniture--an achievement that would have pleased the young de Chirico...
...after Jackie Kennedy's son was born, Mamie Eisenhower announced that she would invite her successor over to the White House soon, for a cellar-to-attic inspection tour. When? asked a reporter. "Well," smiled Mamie, "I have to wait...
Miss Bardot's attempts to find the real murderer produce reactions ranging from catcalling laughter to a commendable degree of tension. Where the heroine of an Alfred Hitchcock movie would creep inquisitively into a fruit cellar, Miss Bardot pursues her suspicions into an attic, and although the only person she finds there is a police officer also investigating the crime, the classic suspense formula nevertheless brings forth some tight moments...