Word: doll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest revision by Director Ninette de Valois of that old charmer, Coppélia starring petite Ballerina Nadia Nerina, a whirlwind dancer, a vivacious actress and an impudent comedienne all at once. Coppelia, as generations of balletgoers know is a mechanical doll who all but wins the heart of a young man. Dolls of several nationalities dance in the dollmaker's workshop, elegantly costumed peasants gambol m the village square, and occasionally the story stops for a joyful pas de deux: in short, a delightful show...
...years after his illness (see cut). It was at about this time that the Duchess of Alba took him on. As willful as she was lovely, the Duchess surrounded herself with the freaks, dwarfs and buffoons whom Goya loved to draw. They made a dramatic setting for her fragile, doll-like beauty. Goya drew and painted her often, sometimes with admiration and sometimes in anger at her wild flirting. Once he showed her carried away by witches and looking as cool as ever. When she died, he turned from palace to street life, found it every bit as weird...
...more modest hymn to feminine vitality, the 18th century Shrimp Girl in London's National Gallery. Where Hogarth suppressed all detail and strong color to concentrate on his model's glowing face, Evergood does the opposite. His girl is no prettier or more sensate-seeming than a doll, with chalky flesh and blaring costume. Yet she dominates her cluttered setting like a new, pagan deity, a personification of summertime on American shores...
...stood in a vestibule which was painted pitch black. The only light came from the yellow eyes of a weird pagan god with two heads and eight arms sitting on a teakwood stand . . . A regular Japanese doll of a woman strolled into the foyer . . . Her feet were thrust into tiny gold slippers twinkling with jewels, and jade and ivory bracelets clattered on her arms. She had the longest fingernails I'd ever seen, each lacquered a delicate green. An almost endless bamboo cigarette holder hung languidly from her bright red mouth . . . There was a moment's silence...
...arrested James V. Spagnola, reported that he used a sledge hammer, hatchet and shears on the furnishings of his estranged wife's home while she was at work, shut off the gas and cut the power lines and scrawled on the living-room mirror: "This is your home, Doll...