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...scenes, bursting with character and morose, raucous appetite, so much as the late brothel pictures, which fluctuate with such marvelous ambiguity between desire and repulsion, between the sentimental and the caricatural, while preserving (for the most part) a strict and innately aristocratic ( distance. One side of Lautrec was a goatish, little skeptic who regarded sex as a semiexcretory function -- "To make love," he once said, "it doesn't matter what you're with -- anything will do." The other side was extremely tender, and it comes out most clearly in the paintings of lesbians (a favorite literary topic in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cutting Through The Myth | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...Reinert murders. The actual killings were done by Jay Smith, the school principal, who was sentenced to death and awaits execution. How Smith ever got to be an administrator of impressionable youth remains one of those mysteries of American public education. He fixed people with a cold, goatish stare and liked to shock. His opening remark to a teacher who had recently lost her husband: "As a young widow, perhaps you could tell me how you handle your sex life." When police searched Smith's house they found pornographic material, including books with titles like Her Four-Legged Lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pennsylvania Death Trip | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...Broadway revival, the usually cool Nelligan has turned up the heat to blistering lev els. Raucous, tender and compelling, she is an astonishment, the perfect instrument for young English Director David Leveaux's energetic and often surprisingly humorous conception of the play. She is ably supported by grand, goatish Jerome Kilty as her ever scheming father, and there is an atmosphere of stark eloquence in Brien Vahey's set and in Marc B. Weiss's subtle lighting. Only Bannen lets down the side. He is an intelligent actor, but he never finds the fire in the ashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Anguished Aria | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...obscene boy," appears with the music of heaven, sublimely, effortlessly at his fingertips. And what a Mozart! Impudent, abrasively egocentric, silly in behavior, foul of mouth, a wine-bibbing libertine. Tim Curry's Mozart is unforgettable, an imp of the perverse, a strangely vulnerable Pan on a goatish night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Blood Feud | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...rocking sheep" covered in natural fleece. Wolfing down golf-ball-size chunks of fresh lamb barbecue (at $3.50 a plate), they watch as skilled artisans turn piles of fleece into yarn with Rumpelstiltskin-like skill. After hours spent looking over the thickset Dorsets and Suffolks, fine-haired Merinos, goatish Barbado black bellies and exotic Karakuls on display, people whose only past experience with sheep also involved mint jelly begin to make knowing comments about various breeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Sheep and Shear Ecstasy | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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