Word: companions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must confess I liked best the simplest of the dances, performed not by Shanta Rao herself but by her assistants, Chandramati and Padma. Imagine if you can an Indian Sophia Loren, as my companion in the audience suggested, and a lovely doll-like Oriental performing a dance of intense flirtation with the audience, whispering silently to them, looking them in the eye. One was sultry, pouting; the other prim and coquettish; yet both were dancing the same steps. When one glared out of the corner of her eye, the other peeked; yet both moved their eyes at the same time...
...Public Eye fails too, but only partially. Certainly it is a better play than its companion peace. Its basic idea is a clever one: a wildly unorthodox detective, hired by an accountant to shadow his wife, has a wordless love affair with her instead. Julian, the zoot-suited, irreverent private eye, finally rescues the accountant's marriage and returns to his life as a "public" eye, minding other people's business...
...views assaulted the conscience of all England. He created the character of Colonel Blimp, a florid beefeater with a walrus mustache who symbolized British complacency in the teeth of the 20th century's storms. From a Turkish bath, the colonel sprayed his nonsense at a mute companion who looked suspiciously like Cartoonist Low. "Gad, sir," said the colonel, "Hitler is right. The only way to teach people self-respect is to treat 'em like the curs they are." Japan was right, too, in the Blimpian Olympus: Keeping the white man out of the black man's country...
...power makes the almost classical grace of his women on the right of "Two Figures Happening" all the more remarkable. The figure on the left displays typically massive thighs and a heavy torso inclined forward. The right-hand figure is powerful but much lighter. She twists toward her companion and her left arm, bent at the elbow, is thrown across her face. There is grace but not freedom. Both figures really seem to be "happening," to be struggling free of the surrounding darkness. Even in a classical motif Lebrun preserves the heaving of his visceral world...
...sometimes hesitating and gazing into space before replying. "I just can't give pat answers--everything I do is exploratory," she emphasizes. But when Radcliffe's newly appointed dean speaks, often she blows a quick stream of smoke into the air and then turns to look directly at her companion. As an undergraduate at Radcliffe, she concentrated in History and Literature. She married Peter H. Solomon '40 "right after orals" but admits that hers was hardly a typical Harvard-Radcliffe romance: she and her husband had known each other before college. In the ten years following graduation, Mrs. Solomon...