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...exact identity is one of the great mysteries in the history of art. Now almost 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, Computer Artist Lillian Schwartz, a consultant at AT&T Bell Laboratories, has set off minor tremors in the art world by asserting that the model for Da Vinci's masterpiece was Leonardo himself. In the January issue of Art & Antiques, Schwartz explains that she used a new computer-model program to juxtapose the famous painting with Leonardo's only known self-portrait. Writes Schwartz: "The relative locations of the nose, mouth, chin, eyes and forehead...
...extent that such a nationalism reflects social prejudices, the criticisms become self-contradictory. Lillian Chao, professor of English emeritus at National Taiwan University, fears that the spread of English is doing subtle damage. "China has always been a civilization of great politeness and courtesy," she says. "But now our young people, through the English they're studying, are learning to be so offhanded. They say 'Hi' to everyone they greet, and everything is 'O.K.' " Well, exactly...
...achievement award. Resplendently slim in a petaled silk organza gown by Arnold Scaasi, Taylor, 54, arrived (45 minutes late, typically) to take her seat in a box next to her mother Sara Taylor, 90, and listen to testimonials by the likes of Roddy McDowell, Jane Powell, Mike Nichols and Lillian Gish. "She is herself an occasion," exclaimed longtime Friend McDowell, "a bona fide movie star, a national treasure." To prove that point, 70 minutes of highlights from 23 of her films were shown, starting with The White Cliffs of Dover (made when she was twelve), finishing with Between Friends (made...
...Hilboldt, an actress whose plainness of manner amounts to a kind of self-cancellation, is dully conventional. And a subplot that involves them in an endlessly unfunny attempt to soothe the troubled spirit of Burgess's mad old mom is irrelevant and near to tasteless. She is played by Lillian Gish, and the movies' oldest pro clearly understands that she is trapped in Sweet Liberty's dreariest neighborhood. She does her brash best to break loose, but her efforts are more brave than successful. Doubtless her first auteur, D.W. Griffith, warned her there would be roles like this. And movies...
...Long on Lonely Street, a zesty, poignant and fiercely funny comedy. Far more shocking revelations have already emerged along the way, on matters ranging from race to motherhood to incest. Playwright Sandra Deer has created a clan of faded gentry who mingle the greed of the family in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes with the lubricious dementia of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart. Yet Deer has a kinder heart toward her characters than either author. The result, while likely to strike some playgoers as scandalous, is the most impressive playwriting debut of the New York season...