Word: iguana
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...Night of the Iguana. At MIT's Kresge Theater, performed by the MIT Dramashop. April 29-May 1 at 8 p.m. Tickets...
Died. Margaret Leighton, 53, twice a Tony Award winner (for Separate Tables, 1956, and The Night of the Iguana, 1962), whose stage and screen career stretched over 35 years and included such successful films as The Winslow Boy and The Go-Between in which the willowy, blonde English actress starred in her usual elegant style; while under treatment for multiple sclerosis; in Chichester, England...
...Raleigh's artist on Roanoke Island in the 1580s, to the gloomy wildernesses of Gustave Dore 250 years later, the exhibition shows us the European eye adjusting itself to the freakish wonders of the New World. The dragon detaches it self from mythology and becomes an "igwano" or iguana; "a strange monster" turns out to be an opossum...
...breath to waste on the totally fruitless complaint that we were not being fed with spoons of precious metal," that is his mother talking. The arias of gentility in Williams' plays, whether they be those of Amanda Wingfield, Blanche du Bois or Hannah Jelkes (The Night of the Iguana), derive from maternal speech patterns. Mrs. Williams' predilections are also present in her son's fondness for plush hotels, in his dropping−and sometimes drop-kicking−names and in his notion that people, particularly critics, are not properly genuflectory before some of his poorer works...
Separated. Sue Lyon, 28, Hollywood's passionate nymphet of the 1960s (Lolita, The Night of the Iguana); and Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 34, convicted murderer whom Lyon met after his arrest and married a year ago in the Colorado state prison. Lyon filed for divorce "because I've been told by people in the movie business . . . that I won't get a job because I'm married to Cotton." But, she added, "I'll always love...