Word: dove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dove for Love. Heading for Peking, Nenni stopped off in Moscow for some full VIP treatment. At a dinner given for him by the Stalin Peace Prize Committee, onetime (1951) Prizewinner Nenni recalled that another Italian traveler, one Marco Polo, had also traveled to Peking, where the Great Khan had entrusted him with two beautiful maidens he wanted to save from the snares of court life. Said Nenni: "Well, there is no longer a Great Khan at Peking, but rather the head of the people's government. He will not hand us young girls to be saved...
Japan's No. 1 cinemactress, dove-necked Machiko Kyo, the rape victim of Rashomon and mincing dispenser of love in Ugetsu, arrived in Manhattan for her first trip outside Japan, was given such a whirl of interviews, screenings, photographic sessions, business appointments and kimono changes (she was equipped with ten sets) that she had little time even for window shopping. At week's end she left for Hollywood to discuss MGM's prize offer: that she play the role of Lotus Blossom opposite Marlon Brando in the film version of Broadway's Teahouse of the August...
...life of Mary. One of the best preserved panels (see color page) shows the child Mary installed as a handmaiden in the temple as a thanksgiving offering by her parents. According to the Apocryphal Book of James: "And Mary was in the temple of the Lord as a dove that is nurtured; and she received food from the hand of an angel." To portray Mary the artist used gentle modulations of beige, blue and gold, which achieve the soft tones of tempera painting. Little effort was made to indicate perspective, but the turning movement of the figures, the flowing robes...
Some of Pressagent Williamson's ideas were on the ribald side, e.g., "Dove sono?" ("Where have they gone?"), from The Marriage of Figaro, would show a girl who has dropped her falsies. Others were plain wacky, e.g., "Parigi, o cara" ("Paris, my dear"), from Traviata, would show one lady demonstrating a strange new garment to another. "Caro name" ("Dear name"), from Rigoletto, would show a sugar daddy signing a fat check for his girl friend. Pressagent Williamson (whose clients have included Gladys Swarthout, Ezio Pinza, Helen Traubel) persuaded Austrian-born Artist Susan Perl to put her ideas on paper...
...Beginning was the Woman. Goddess of All Things," she rose naked out of Chaos, danced so wildly that great wind sprang up. The goddess caressed the wind and it became a great serpent which coiled itself lustfully around her. The goddess became pregnant, assumed a dove's form laid "the Universal Egg." Out of the Egg tumbled all things that exist sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs and living creatures." Swollen with pride the serpent declared himself "the author ot tne universe," which made the goddess so angry that she kicked...