Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tired and tattered, its once-youthful stars well past middle age. Even the exhibits had lost most of their punch-Man Ray's ticking metronome with a staring eye impaled on the blade, entitled Object to Destroy; Marcel Duchamp's bearded and mustachioed version of the Mona Lisa; a mirror into which visitors peered until they saw the title, Portrait of an Imbecile...
Both points are clearly not unknown to the director of the present production, Frederick J. Marker, and to his actors, but not all of them are able to take the necessary countermeasure, which is to seek a new and personal interpretation whenever possible. Very fortunately one of them does; Lisa Rosenfarb, in the role of Blanche DuBois, the once-genteel nymphomaniac who finally ends up in a mental institution after she is raped by her brutish brother-in-law. Miss Rosenfarb dominates the play with a generally skillful exposition of the woman's confusion in the midst...
Regarding the stoning of the Mona Lisa [TIME, Jan. 7]: of course, there is the question of the artistic value of the painting. But how far can art go in the way of justifying everything? My point is, no woman, no matter how important or beautiful she might be, has the right to be smiling "enigmatically" for nearly five centuries. The action of the Bolivian crackpot symbolizes the repressed reactions of millions of healthy men when faced with feminine enigmas...
...Tonight. Instead, Producer-Writer Kovacs buttoned his lip tight and proved himself TV's most inventive master of pantomime, sight gags and sound effects. When he opened a copy of Camille, a female cough came out of it. He educed a knowing chuckle from the inscrutable Mona Lisa, and screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib. As Eugene the Clubman he was defied by gravity. The Nairobi Trio, composed of three derbied apes, played a hilarious composition for xylophone, mallet and finger bone. There was even a custard...
These unsolicited letters, whether they come from a schoolgirl such as Lisa Fitzgerald or a Nobel prizewinner such as William Faulkner, have one quality in common: a nononsense, no-holds-barred sense of deep and outspoken conviction. Late in the year many of our letter writers share another trait: they are reviewing the events of the year and choosing their candidates for TIME'S Man of the Year. One of these this year was Finbarr M. Slattery, who is known as "the divil to argue" in his native village, Asdee (pop. 250) in County Kerry, where the Shannon meets...