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Where Caesar is magnificently consistent, Cleopatra is a little anthology of feminine character. In the course of the play she not only matures from kitten to queen, but exercises her option for whimsical action to the fullest. Miss Yakutis handles the various phases, moods, and transitions with considerable skill, and like Seltzer she shines in the scenes of intimate conversation. My only objection to her portrayal is that it leans something too heavily on the prop of youth. Even at her first meeting with Caesar, Cleopatra must be something more than girlish--she must demonstrate a potential for rule...

Author: By Peter Jaszi, | Title: Caesar and Cleopatra | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

Untrammeled Spirit. Wyeth returned to paint Christina Olson many times, cradling a kitten in her arms, or sitting on her porch. He painted her house 50 times, and an upstairs room in it in Wind from the Sea, which shows the curtains billowing as Wyeth once saw them, when a long-closed window was suddenly thrown open. His last portrait, titled Anna Christina, was completed last summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Models: Indomitable Vision | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...night as he walked along a country road near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His wife and the nun have returned to whisper his praises in a volume of appreciations published this fall. Mrs. Jarrell recalls her husband's enthusiasms for sports cars, Mahler, and a giant cat named Kitten; Sister M. Bernetta Quinn plods patiently through an exposition of "Metamorphoses in Randall Jarrell...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: The Poet and Critic in Retrospect | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

...film is not an original-cast production. Sly substitutions have been made, notably Fonda for Broadway's Elizabeth Ashley. Jane's performance is the best of her career: a clever caricature of a sex kitten who can purr or scratch with equal intensity. Among the tastiest leftovers from the stage are Redford as the harassed groommate and Mildred Natwick, skittering on the edge of hysteria as she articulates the film's philosophy to her daughter: "Make him feel important. If you do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage, like two out of every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Income & Pattable | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...back steps and breathe the rich air-a mother skunk with her kitten swills the garbage pail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets: The Second Chance | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

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