Word: connor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue sails of forms. No gimmicks or gadgetry here, thank you. Carefully avoiding dehumanization and de-sexualization (in the painterly tradition), I strove to leave out as many myriad forms and colors as was possible. When finished, the wall seemed to cry out: "My name is Pat O'Connor-and goddammit, I can paint as well as Helen Frankenthaler...
PATRICK T. O'CONNOR Chevy Chase...
...Mary and John? The ad announcing the new production says it in ideographs: Rosemary's baby carriage perched atop Mrs. Robinson's knee. Mia Farrow, 23, and Dustin Hoffman, 31. The wandering waif and the victim of the middle class. Mrs. Sinatra and Mr. Acne. Novelist Flannery O'Connor put it another way: "Everything that rises must converge." The casting together of the two fastest-rising performers in the business was inevitable?it always is. But it once took half a career to manage the box-office mergers of Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson or Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn...
...been shot once in the stomach and once in the head, Joseph Barrios, a California cook, seemed to be making a remarkable recovery. The shooting occurred early in October, when robbers held up the restaurant where Barrios worked. Doctors at San Jose's O'Connor Hospital patched up his abdominal flesh wound, removed most of a shattered .22-cal. bullet from his brain, leaving him with only a slight headache and blurred vision. At that point, follow-up X rays sent Barrios into a spin for-dear life...
...KEVIN O'CONNOR blends as smoothly into Mayer's conception of Dionysus as the conception does into the play. And as Pentheus, Leon Russom is the perfect physical contrast to O'Connor, while at the same time an exceptionally able and disciplined actor. In his characterization, however, lies a failure of definition that badly undercuts the action of the play. Pentheus must metamorphosize somewhere along the line from a hyper-rationalist into a pathetic, obsessed figure; and Russom, or Mayer, has chosen the wrong moment for the metamorphosis. When Pentheus emerges from the ruins of his palace, razed...