Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corn points out, the eroticism that might have been an attribute of his figures is transferred entirely to the landscape they inhabit. Wood's people are nearly always emblems of either innocence or rectitude: pink and doll-like when they are not harsh and sanctimonious. But the hills are like green breasts and buttocks, heaving perceptibly in his preferred light, that of a young spring morning. The plowshare slices into them suggestively. His best landscapes from the '30s, like Spring Turning, 1936, are votives to the original dea mater: man makes his brown tattoos on that vast pelt...
...life. He raged when he was deserted, as he saw it, by Ingrid Bergman after Spellbound and Notorious and by Grace Kelly after Dial "M" for Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. By 1962, when he filmed The Birds, he was treating Actress Tippi Hedren as a doll to dress, cosset and terrorize...
...Benny, and Dave Eastman, who portrays high stakes Chicago gambler Big Julie, all turn in memorable performances. Sagawa and Alexander, clowas throughout the show, pull out all the stops in the title song as they bemoan the fate of their boss and any other guy who falls for a doll. Eastman's bellows of "Let's shoot crap!" are worthy of the evilest mobster, and the dance numbers are energetic and enthusiastic...
Hughes and Jeffrey Korn, who plays Sky, turn in stellar performances. Hughes manages to embody both the uptight "mission doll" and the Havana seductress, and Korn does equally well as a sometime daydreamer who can still convince Sarah that there is nothing in her drink besides milk and a little native flavoring called "bacardi." Both actors amply demonstrate their marvelous voices. Hughes' "If I were a Bell," Korn's "Luck Be a Lady" and their several duets would resonate sweetly in Sanders Theater, let alone the cogy Leverett Old Library...
Which are you, Nastassia Kinski? The child or the woman? The day beast or the dream angel? The European actress or the Hollywood star? The high-fashion doll or the rag doll? The new beauty or a woman older than...