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...PARADE, a ton of beauty. I am fat and I am proud of it," crows Francine, the 350-pound Roman goddess of plump pulchritude in Alber Innaurato's Passione. Sex and food figure in prominently with the play's comic themes, as they did in Innaurato's highly successful Broadway production Gemini. But where the tasty humor and the social statement complemented each other will in Gemini in passione they form a somewhat less savory mixture. The bittersweet flavor Innaurato aims for is drowned in cloying source of sugary high-energy fun and the salty tears of a misplaced tugging...

Author: By Stuart A. Angang, | Title: Hold the Commentary | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

...park superintendent has made life difficult for today's fence climbers by placing metal screening on the gates in the open space above the locks. But little else has changed in Gramercy Park in the past 25 years. The once titillating statue of the half-naked woman (or goddess or whatever she was) at the east end of the park has been painted dark (she was gold and white in different eras). One of the massive elms has died. Yet the grassy areas are as they were-four neat lawns cut in the shape of piano tops, on which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Christmas in a Small Place | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

Johnston as an unsuccessful sex goddess is convincing, but her hardened view of the world's presented in a posed, hand-on-hip fashion though Bradford might have wanted a fashion pose took Francis as a hippy seems overly tired (may be from all the protesting) and her lines lack the emotion expected from a revolutionary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All My Children | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...Sing, Goddess, of Architect Manolis Korres, 35, and the Committee for the Preservation of the Acropolis Monuments, scientists from many nations gathered in Athens, casting off fear as before a great battle, to plan restoration of the most beautiful wonder of the ancient world: the marble Parthenon. That hilltop temple of Zeus' daughter, Athena the Virgin (Athena Parthenos), has for 2,400 years brought glory to Phidias, sculptor of its fluted columns, and to farseeing Pericles, and to all the Hellenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Saving the Crumbling Parthenon | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...weep, Goddess? Mankind weeps with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Saving the Crumbling Parthenon | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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