Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unlike the current breed of master spy, they aren't likely to wind up in jail for perjury, either. Le Carre goes a long way in his realism, stripping away the Barbie-doll glamor that clings to the image of the secret agent. LeCarre instead sculpts sensitive human beings that live and breathe...
Such details could be overlooked if the acting weren't so uneven. Regina, the daughter, is written as the center of energy in the children's conflict; but Robin Lane, complete with Barbie Doll face and cocktail waitress hairstyle, gives an annoyingly superficial performance. Her flirtatious manner, exaggerated gestures, even he phrasing, are all much too predictable: she extrapolates the obvious from each line, rather than offering any emotional integrity or depth of characterization...
These are indeed Master Paintings and the emphasis should be on the plural. Like a Russian doll which twists apart revealing an identical painted doll, inside of which is another painted doll, until the repetition becomes a marvel, the rooms of the exhibit each open to show another artistic entity, another group of--yes, again--masterpieces. Unlike Russian dolls, however, these paintings demand individual recognition. Old favorites compete for attention: Ingres's Odalisque a l'Esclave, Degas's Cotton Merchants, David's Portrait of Sieyes, Rembrandt's Head of Christ, Rubens's Quo Ego, Poussins's Holy Family...these call...
Newbury Street boasts the "nation's first gallery" (Doll & Richards, at No. 172), the oldest art society in America (Copley Society, No. 158) and the oldest non-profit organization in the U.S. (The Society of Arts and Crafts, No. 175). The galleries display old masters and contemporary art, sculpture and arts and crafts, photography and ethnic art. So what's there now? Here's a sampling...
...plays were dreary ideological tracts, melodramas or translations of Western plays, like those of Ibsen or Shaw, that were deemed by one of the dozens of left-wing sects to have a social message. One of Chiang Ch'ing's favorite roles in Shanghai was in A Doll's House. She played Nora as a modern female rebel, a fact she proudly remembers...