Word: harlequin
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Slated to go on the auction block at London's Sotheby's in April were 34 impressionist and post-impressionist paintings (among the best known: Picasso's Death of a Harlequin) from the collection of Multimillionaire Storyteller Somerset Maugham, 88. Anticipated proceeds: upwards of $1,400,000, which, along with most of the rest of his estate, Maugham has earmarked for Britain's Incorporated Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers to spare "needy authors from doing hack work...
...story, by Colette, has a Hans Christian Andersen simplicity: a naughty child, in a harlequin rage, rips up the furniture, twists the cat's tail, yanks the clock's pendulum and exults: "I'm free-naughty and free." In the second scene, the animals gather to threaten the child, forgive him only after he has come to the aid of an injured squirrel...
Psychological Substance. Nichols can be alternately Harlequin and Pantaloon, his crayon-blue eyes and round, astonished mouth suggesting that he finds the world just a little too much to cope with. Elaine is a dark-eyed Columbine of many moods who wears her immemorial, feminine wisdom a little uncomfortably, like an ill-fitting evening dress. Just as the commedia players ridiculed the braggarts and poltroons, cuckolds and scheming Don Juans, Mike and Elaine act out caricatures of their own time and place-the phony intellectual, the lecherous boss and his confused secretary, the little man at the mercy...
...most determined customers, the Texas Field Guide has sold more than 6,000 copies-more than some bestselling novels. The author: Roger Tory Peterson, 51, the U.S.'s top birdman, whose wrinkle-ringed blue eyes (no spectacles except for close work) can distinguish between a harlequin duck and a common scoter half a mile away...
...jazz sound like a 19th century tone poem. With a sharp, clear vibes, a versatile piano, a bass and a set of traps, the quartet warmed up with a cool version of I'll Remember April, approached mastery in its last offering, a three-part number (The Singer, Harlequin, Contessa) delivered in a boogie-woogie, bass-led tempo and highlighted by an atonal, polyphonic piano...