Word: mannequin
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...girl." All the rest is left to the actress who plays Joan. She must give the play a luminous soul. In the disastrous revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, Lynn Redgrave proves woefully incapable of that. She has the inspiring warmth of an undraped mannequin in a store window. Her metallic high-pitched voice seems to issue from some implanted accordion, and her stance and gestures suggest those of a badly coordinated puppet. She seems to want to hear her heavenly "voices," but perhaps the decibel count onstage is too high for that...
...styles, Cleopatra eye makeup, scarab rings, mummy bead necklaces, wallpaper sporting Egyptian goddesses, Tut towel and pillow sets. The newest disco dance is a stimulating shuffle called the King Tut Strut. One women's shop has achieved the living end in Egyptian necrophilia: its main window features a mannequin wrapped in masking tape to look like a mummy...
...insane maze-like set with everything from bathtubs, to free-standing fireplaces and rows of chandeliers hanging a foot off the ground and a hundred other incongruous objects littered across the stage. As in the first act, there is peripatetic delight in easily-overlooked details, like a severed mannequin hand here, or a broken champagne glass there. And it is in this serendipitous affection for strange objects, sounds and images that the main pleasure of the production comes...
...Canal. As fireworks explode above the Rialto and gondolas pass below, the huge head of a woman is hoisted out of the canal. Suddenly--a rope breaks, poles fall, masquers scream and the vast shape sinks back under the dark green water. The camera focuses in on one costumed mannequin, dressed in white, with his hair pulled back off an amazingly high forehead. The stage is set for Casanova...
...boots or a bathrobe, for the person. 8 Sheets for an Undefined Novel, a suite of etchings done in 1976 of single figures in black ink on soft gray paper, are among the most beautiful works in the show. The seated and half-length figures, part human, part mannequin, in these large prints are lost in private, unidentifiable thoughts. They are mysterious, often disturbing and erotic images, rich in psychological overtones. To several of the partly nude female figures Dine has added genitals painted in watercolor so that they glow like jewels...