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...rejection, became brutal. I'd go see the scene twice more. John Mac-Fayden's (Claudio) scene in his cell with Miss Moss ticked along too. I didn't like David Hammond as Vincento. Some faults were the part's; some his. He behaved like a busybody old maid and the way he swept around the stage propelled by long thin whirring hands didn't help...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: Measure for Measure | 3/4/1967 | See Source »

...rustic aerie. The living room is furnished with stuffed bears, a cigar-store Indian, beaded rugs, totems, the war bonnets of Sitting Bull and Geronimo-all of which takes two servants four hours to dust. Each guest is assigned a cabin with one butler and one maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: Mumsy the Magnificent | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...numbers. These, one might add, are among the best moments in the film and the ones where Lester's style is most impressive. Who else, for instance, would put Zero Mostel, Jack Glifford, and Phil Silvers in a toga kickline atop an aqueduct singing "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | 1/17/1967 | See Source »

...Powell put a Negro girl, Sylvia Givens, 20, on the committee payroll as a "clerk," then used her for "domestic work"; Miss Givens testified that she worked as a cook and maid at his retreat on South Bimini Island in the Bahamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Curse of Adam | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...result, Manet's professional life often reads like an endless scandal. The all-too-earthy goddess Olympia, which he painted in 1863, rocked an art world accustomed to nymphs and satyrs, emperors and gladiators: it was obvious from the bouquet of flowers carried by her Negro maid that a lover had just arrived. And when Manet combined Giorgione's Arcadian pastoral with postures from a corner of Raphael's Judgment of Paris, and then transformed them into all-too-contemporary figures, one of them in the buff, picnicking on the banks of the Seine, Napoleon III considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Fundamentalist | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

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