Word: harlequin
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...next day, Sunday-it seems to be always on Sunday-there were ominous troop movements in Saigon. Reportedly the operation was directed by Brigadier General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the mustached, intense commander of the I Corps in the northern region, and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who affects harlequin glasses and a pearl-handled revolver. Squads of police sped through Saigon's darkened streets, arresting seven council members and a dozen-odd politicians and student leaders...
Only Nature Counts. The kinship of his harlequin colors seems miraculous. Foliage flutters before the eye like scurrying butterflies. An overcoat lying on a chair takes on the bulk and presence of its wearer. A still life of skulls-piled more like strange fruit than memento mori-melts their contours into the curves of a parti-colored tablecloth in a haunting arabesque...
...justify its billing as "a new-style" musical. Stop the World employs a Greek chorus of girls garbed in harlequin-style tights. They make anatomically diverting, if irrelevant, comment on the action. Newley is as amiable as he is indefatigable, and by musical's end one has been through so much with his Mr. Littlechap that show and showgoer are knit in intimacy, the kind of factitious friendship that springs up between people who have shared a train wreck, or a bombing raid, or certain opening nights on Broadway...
Clitandre's servant Lubin is played by Robin Ramsay quite legitimately as a Harlequin, complete with the customary white-face and diamond-patch costume. Making frequent use of a real slapstick in hand, he cavorts about with unflagging athleticism, and also functions as the troupe's impresario. With matching costume, Susan Baldwin makes his opposite number, Angelique's servant Claudine, into a sort of Colombine: she needs to convey more of the character's cleverness...
...presided over the sale without a flicker of nervousness, apart from shooting a cuff now and then. The 35 paintings went for $1,466,864, including $244,000-the highest price ever paid at auction for a living artist-for a Picasso curiosity that showed The Death of Harlequin on one side and Woman Seated in a Garden on the other. In the last five years, Sotheby's has brought in $76.5 million, of which nearly half has come from Wilson's painting sales alone. This year promises to be the biggest...