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...Sister George, a smash hit now playing in London, centers on an elderly, cigar-smoking lesbian and her doll-baby secretary-companion. Whenever the younger woman offends the older, she is forced to atone for it. One penance is to drink a cup of the old lesbian's bath water, another is to chew up one of her soggy cigar stumps...
Invitation to a Bath...
...PURCELL ANTHOLOGY (Angel). Some youthful discretions by England's greatest composer, performed in singing style by Violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Alberto Lysy and members of the Bath Festival Orchestra. Mood and key flash from dark to bright in the short, rich trio sonatas and free-form fantasias for string quartets. Although they show a polite acquaintance with Italian baroque, the selections mind their Purcellian manners nevertheless...
...Acid Bath. Once Costantini has a drawing or plaster model in hand, he seeks out the glass blower he feels particularly suited to the work. "We drink a glass of wine and talk," he says, "then another glass of wine and talk some more." Costantini selects the colors, and the tortuous work of blowing and shaping begins. For Ernst's tall, reddish-brown Poet, topped by a sharp-beaked head with a hole for an eye, the glassworker at some stages had the equivalent of a 100-lb. weight at the end of his long metal blowpipe. Le Corbusier...
Life Upside Down. Slight, smiling Jacques (Charles Denner) seems to be an ordinary little man working in an ordinary little real estate office in Paris. He lives with Viviane (Anna Gaylor), an ordinary little model who loves to look at herself in commercials and magazine ads. While taking a bath one afternoon, Jacques experiences a kind of ecstasy of self-absorption so powerful that he fails to notice that Viviane has come home and is chattering away at him. Later, he feels something of the same blissful detachment when he leaves a group of friends in a restaurant and begins...