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Word: lisa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distorted into a toothy leer. They are also drenched in evocative rhetoric about monstrous, insatiable female deities. The Women have been compared, severally and together, to the destroying Kali, to Robert Graves' White Goddess, to Alban Berg's Lulu, to Lilith and Marlene and Marilyn and Mona Lisa. Now obviously these drawings do have their demonic aspect - the air of Woman, circa 1951, with her staring black pupils, bared teeth and cuirass-like breasts, testifies to that; they are not just formal exercises. It certainly seems that De Kooning finds it hard to imagine women in other than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Painter as Draftsman | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

Bronowski often bridges the gap between the two cultures, discoursing on everything from the Mona Lisa to the construction of Rheims Cathedral. He demonstrates how the flowering of art and architecture was a natural out growth of expanding knowledge in mathematics and the rules of perspective. Bronowski also corrects the popular notion that the Industrial Revolution simply forced man to give up rural pleasures for urban horrors. This revolution, he points out, freed man from age-old social strictures, creating a new aristocracy of talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Upward and Onward? | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...bust was made on grounds of "open and gross lewdness." The scenes which brought on this charge were a strip-scene early in the play, and an act of "fornication," which takes place later on. Twelve members of the company were arrainged, and the two main actors, Lisa Ingalls and Joel Polinsky, were charged with "public fornication." Following hearings in Massachusetts and Federal Courts, the play has been allowed to continue in its original format pending further decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratic Eros | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...young woman, played by Lisa Ingalls, is abducted by a disturbed man, played by Joel Polinsky. She is bound, gagged, and strapped to a swivel chair. Her assailant proceeds to strip her while narrating the story of his life. Ultimately, he persuades her to stay with him of her own will. In Sweet Eros, the hero offers us a vision of life so meaningless, that judging the moral reprehensibility of his actions is impossible. His girlfriend committed suicide, his mother died of cancer; life to him has become an absurd game which he likens to the scurrying of ants across...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratic Eros | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

Most of Radcliffe's points were earned by Thal and Muscatine, the Cliffe's top two singles players. Conceding the singles to Princeton and to Yale's Lisa Rosenblum, the two combined forces to thump three opponents before bowing to a talented Princeton duo, 6-1, 6-0, in the doubles final...

Author: By Dennis P. Corbett, | Title: 'Cliffe Tennis Ties for 3rd in Weekend Tourney | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

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