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...count through the back alleys of her subconscious. Along the way, there are magic potions, a séance, rattling skeletons, a furry sorcerer and assorted gnomes to contend with. Even Faustus and Mephistopheles, coming on like a netherworld Frick & Frack, get into the act. Mephistopheles produces a bouquet of flowers out of the air, and pops a little boy into the oven. Sighs Faustus: "Don't you ever get weary of the same old tricks?" Renata does. Having flogged herself with a whip, she enters a nunnery to repent by singing again on her stomach. The saga ends...
Rainbow Period. The man who has presented his work as a bouquet to the world is now just entering his rainbow period. His colors, blinding enough in his beginnings to win the approval of the German expressionists, grow steadily stronger. He is so well known today that even French working girls recognize him as "le type who paints cows that...
...Russia, Burning Lights. Then, in 1945, he had recovered enough to begin work on the sets and costumes for Stravinsky's The Firebird. The curtain for the ballet lofts a bare-breasted Bella in the embrace of a giant bird, her head upside down and holding a bouquet. It was probably his greatest theatrical production, disturbing, profound and an ultimate memorial from the bereaved painter...
...principal roles, United Artists has rounded up a prize bouquet of star lets, including Edgar Bergen's daughter Candice (U. of Penn '67); talented, TV-trained Joan Hackett; and Poor Rich ard's Joanna Pettet, 21, a bright new face of the past Broadway season...
...iron mother's bouquet did rudely...