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...playwright himself is partly responsible, for his characters droop around a not-quite-real terrace in Southern France far too long before they begin to explain and find themselves by re-living scenes from their lives. Barrie does handle these reenactments, however, with intriguing mergings of the real and dream world--a girl friend becomes a mother in one re-experience, men become boys in another. Such projections out of reality are made into stimulating, fresh moments by the acting...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Hotel Universe | 5/17/1956 | See Source »

...past but with no faith in it. Back home are a dissatisfied High Church wife, debt, a dull desk-in short, the Graham Greene country of mildew, cabbage water, frayed cuffs, bad dentistry and unmade beds and all the other seedy physical metaphors for "weeping multitudes [who] droop in a hundred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greene Hell of Indo-China | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...tunes of torchy temper, sung with a fine ear for theatrical effect, e.g., the long, aching swoop, the insinuating droop, the ecstatic quaver, the lilting bounce, the suggestive growl. Tenor Short accompanies himself on the piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Only when the assembled Commonwealth Prime Ministers met for social events did Nehru's heavy-lidded eyes droop tiredly. "This is the real hard work of conferences," he said to Australia's Robert Menzies at one banquet. "I'm not sure I'm enjoying myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Man Between | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...Study of a Nude (1880) "came into being like a bolt from the blue" and shattered a tradition "established through centuries." In Study, Gauguin painted Justine, his children's nurse, "sitting [naked] on her bed mending her chemise. Her shoulders droop . . . her breasts . . . sag, her belly protrudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saga of a Stockbroker | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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