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...Robert Goulet, 31, is the biggest heartthrob since Perry Como (who has now slowed down to seven TV specials a year). Toothy and darkly handsome, Goulet arrived at full gallop as Sir Lancelot in the 1960 musical Camelot. His rich, he-man baritone and baby-blue, bedroom gaze have since made him one of the nation's most pawed-after TV and nightclub performers. Son of a Lawrence, Mass., bartender, he moved to his grandparents' farm in Edmonton, Canada, when he was 14, later won a scholarship in Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music. Forsaking a career...
...mighty serpent, winds a path that spirals upward to the summit. At seven stages of the ascent are situated seven cornices, and on each of them penitents purge one of the seven deadly sins. The proud plod under heavy burdens; the envious wander with eyelids sewn shut; the gluttonous gaze at inaccessible fruit. As Dante and Virgil ascend, they meet famous figures of the Middle Ages engaged in the agonies of atonement-among them Pope Adrian V, King Philip the Fair, the poets Guido Guinizelli and Arnaut Daniel. At first the climb is cruelly difficult, but as Dante ascends...
Under the pensive gaze of Rodin's Thinker, mounting the show took the Modern's Director René d'Harnoncourt a full month. "For example," he said, "there was the problem of installing a 73-ft. chain to support Frederick Kiesler's Last Judgment. The museum was most helpful, but Rodin faces keep popping out in the strangest places...
...looks in one mirror, sees the tattoo in another, turns white. Staring back at him is "a flat, stern Byzantine Christ with all-demanding eyes." Under their gaze he feels "as transparent as the wing of a fly." Scared silly, he drinks himself into a stupor. But when his head clears, God is still on his back and dawn is breaking. "A tree of light burst over the skyline. He felt the light pouring through him, turning his spiderweb soul into a perfect arabesque of colors, a garden of trees and birds and beasts." In terror and wonder, he presents...
...beginning of La Lecon, the pupil is admitted to the professor's study. She has ribbons in her hair, a vacuous stare, chewing gum, a copy of Elle, and a youthful, overpowering spontaneity. Her new tutor enters: striped necktie, fuzzy bead, stiff-bearing, and a fixed gaze which could be either intense or myopic. The lesson begins...