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...self-portraits. El Greco often put his adopted city, Toledo, in the background of his works. A blurred view of its fortified walls can be seen at the foot of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception (1608-1613), and he used it as a stand-in for Troy in Laocoön (early 1610s). (Laocoön and his sons were destroyed by snakes for suggesting that the wooden horse was not as innocent as it seemed...
...statuary can denote drama, Long Day's Journey may be the Laocoön of plays-a doomed family tragically locked in the serpentine coils of the past. The play seems to grow with each revival, and the present National Theater production is the best ever. Witnessing an Olivier undertake a great role by a great dramatist is like watching a god serve a god. One also watches how an incomparable actor shifts his centers of strength. This time, Olivier's eyes seem dominant-wide, melancholy pools of bruised wisdom, anvils sparked with anger, slits of caustic contempt...
...seems to have emboldened a score of males and females to face the audience topless and bottomless, an unforeseen threat to costume designers. The writhings and stomping of Marat/Sade's insane have inspired a corybantic kind of choreography in which the dancers become as hopelessly intertwined as the Laocoön family. The message seems to be that sense is out and the senses...
Drainpipe Laocoön. Blunt, thickset Paolozzi, 40, son of Italian peasants who wound up in Edinburgh selling ice cream, has the mien of his bulky monsters. He practices judo with a passion. "There comes a split second in judo," he says, "when absolutely everything matters. It should be the same in art." He is fascinated by Greek mythology and, indeed, has wrestled 4-in. pipe into torsos, titling it Towards a Laoco...
...building material invented by his father-in-law. They actually put up 240 houses, and Bucky learned a lot about building, but he was a hopelessly poor executive and as much of a fool about money as he had been at Harvard-living wildly beyond his means and rapidly laocoönizing himself in debts and superdebts. He was also hitting the bottle. "The minute I was through work for the day," he has written of that period, "I would go off and drink all night long, and then I'd go to work