Word: eclat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warhol's art-work does not present itself as a challenge to the eclat of Da Vinci and Rembrandt. Rather than attempting to sweep the viewer into the inventive world of the artist, Warhol's painting is a creative attempt to bring a sense of color and design back into daily life
...struggles as Maggie the Cat. She took on the part a week ago--a situation comparable to your kid brother's meeting Khrushchev at the Summit. Admit it. Your kid brother couldn't end the Cold War. Miss Fay, however, very nearly brings off her role with eclat. As it is, she has enough poise and charm to cover up an occasional fluff or to make you forget the juicy lines she lets slip by from lack of rehearsal. One might also excuse her tedious movements and lack of stage business for the same reasons, but the fault lies...
Lisa Commager was a beautiful and not unconvincing Zenocrate. She brought off her two major dramatic transitions with competence, if not eclat, and served as a restrained and lyrical foil to the military clangor of the others. Edmund Hennessy, on the other hand, did away with every sort of restraint in his nervous, grimacing portrayal of Mycetes, the effete King of Perisa. Hennessy was terribly funny, but his evident talent as a mime deserves more direction that it got. Now and then a gesture would jibe with a line. However, for the most part, he wasted a lot of inspired...