Word: duse
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...Tomorrow. There is more to Sophia Loren than meets the eye, and Director Vittorio De Sica is the man who sees it. In Gold of Naples he showed the world that Sophia is socko as a liedown comic. In Two Women he gave the girl an accelerated course of Duse and don'ts that revealed enough talent for tragedy to win her a 1961 Oscar. And in this picture, a hairily hilarious but fundamentally innocent little comedy, De Sica displays Sophia as a warm and earthy and even rather subtle comedienne...
...Patient Enemy. As Nina, Geraldine Page climaxes a decade of steady growth as an actress, with a soaring, searing performance that comes close to fulfilling Tennessee Williams' prophecy that she may become "the American Duse." Ben Gazzara plays the lover with dark, penetrating force, and Pat Hingle's Sam alternately snorts at life like a pig in a trough and tearfully contorts his bruised ego like an infant who has missed the 2 o'clock feeding...
...founders of TIME set down those words in their initial prospectus, they were obviously placing women high on their list-higher than women ranked in many areas of world affairs in 1922. Over the years, women have graced no fewer than 153 TIME covers-ranging from Actress Eleanora Duse (July 30, 1923) to Pat Nixon (Feb. 29. 1960), from Franklin Roosevelt's secretary. Marguerite Le "Hand (Dec. 17, 1934), to Marilyn Monroe (May 14, 1956). This week. 40 years after the 19th Amendment gave the vote to women, TIME'S cover deals with the broad subject of women...
...Muse & Duse. D'Annunzio's manner of speech and dress was copied everywhere. Women tried to behave like his heroines, and competed for symbol status as his bedmates. Intellectuals, of course, were the main victims of D'Annunzio's style, which according to Rhodes was "like that of Venetian glass, redundant and stuffed with reminiscences of Greek and Roman splendor. pseudo-Biblical, pseudomystical." A whole generation of Italian youth accepted his vision of life as an opera with bogus lyrics but real swords. Filippo Marinetti, founder and chief exhibitionist of the crackpot futurist cult (he later...
...histrionics met their match; when she found another woman's hairpins in his guest room, she threatened to burn down his villa "because the temple has been profaned. Flame alone can purify it." But there was nothing preposterous about the poet when he left his muse and Duse to go to the wars. In 1915 D 'Annunzio was living on his fame in Paris, a revered symbol of Italy's risorgimento. but also a plumping man of 52. and no one would have blamed...