Word: isadora
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...broken toe sidelined Vanessa Redgrave for three weeks from the filming of her movie about Isadora Duncan, but that was no reason to drop out of character. While recuperating, Vanessa accepted an invitation to make her singing debut on French television. Critics raved about her voice, but it was her appearance that dazzled most people. Barefoot and as Duncanesque as ever, she looked like a flowing fountain of purple and mauve chiffon-and only the stagehands could see that her hands were trembling with nervousness through the whole ordeal...
...characters. Another invention was the impressionist profile of contemporary figures, of which the most famous had the echoing refrain: "Wars, machine-gun fire and arson-good growing weather for the House of Morgan." These sketches-of Henry Ford and Big Bill Haywood the Wobbly leader, of Rudolph Valentino and Isadora Duncan-were brilliant in themselves and had great influence on the style of journalism...
...built this chapel to atone for 80 years of sins," says Foujita. He certainly gave himself opportunities to accumulate them. Descendant of a warlike samurai family, the Foujiwara (meaning "wild fields of wisteria"), the painter hobnobbed with Picasso, Apollinaire, Isadora Duncan and the catlike artists' model Kiki. Alexander Calder once exhibited his miniature circus at Foujita's soirees...
...arts that first instructed Isadora in the dance. Fresh off a cattle boat from New York in 1899, she and her brother haunted the Louvre, particularly its Greek sculpture collection, where Isadora sought models for her movements. Once they were found, she cast off the traditional ballet corset and slippers, danced barefoot in a transparent Greek tunic to a storm of mixed scandal and approval. By the time she died at the age of 49 in 1927, when her long red shawl caught in the wheel of a sports car and strangled her, she had ushered in the whole modern...
...pilgrimage to Rodin," she recalled, "resembled that of Psyche seeking the God Pan in his grotto, only I was not asking the way to Eros, but to Apollo. He showed his works with the simplicity of the very great." The aging sculptor returned her admiration with a passion, sketched Isadora and her pupils countless times, once sighed: "If only I could have had models like this when I was younger." Isadora responded in kind: "What a pity! Surely Art and all life would have been richer thereby...