Word: isabell
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...ballet titled Original Sin to the public. In reality, they are much closer to the two psychiatrists than to the original sinners. Their Adam and Eve dance is in the tradition of sorcerers and witches, young nobles and peasants of the 14th century (see cut from The Entry of Isabel of Bavaria into Paris as Bride of Charles...
...direction, had promise. The setting was an old abandoned farmhouse used simultaneously as a secret meeting place for a pair of lovers and the headquarters for mock army maneuvers, and the dialogue, some of it funny, is about what is real (the war games) and what is not (Isabel, the girl, waiting for Charlie, her lover). Really, of course, Isabel is real and the army illusion...
...Died. Isabel M. Paterson, 75, fictional chronicler of society (Never Ask the End, The Golden Vanity) and longtime pungent critic and columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, who liked new styles in writing but detested new styles in politics enough to refuse social security benefits after tearing up her card; of a heart attack; in Montclair...
...slender, birdlike woman with an enthusiasm that never runs down, Isabel Bishop was 16 when she started training for a career at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. At the time, she loathed the drudgery of "drawing, drawing, drawing," but she learned to be grateful for it. In 1934 she leased her present studio, and Union Square became her subject. She sketched the lounging bums ("America's only 'leisure class' "), drew the men and women hurrying past a drugstore, or bending over a fountain to get a quick drink, or just eating a hotdog...
...Union Square station some of the mystery of a cathedral; yet her people make their entrances and exits, and the trains rush in and out again, and life moves on. Her problem is what it has always been: how to catch the fleeting moment without freezing its flight. Isabel Bishop's brush creates a vibrant shimmer and veils her everyday dramas in a magic mist that evokes a sense of timelessness...