Word: mannikin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playwright Williams' instinct for the theatrical jugular makes even this mannikin play bleed greasepaint. Elia Kazan's direction is intense, Jo Mielziner's sets are broodily menacing, and Paul Bowles's mood music shimmers. But the only unfailing source of power and passion in the play is the bravura performance of Geraldine Page. Whether she is thrashing about in bed crying for her oxygen mask after a days-long vodka-and-goofball binge or clawing apart her hired paramour's tape-recorded blackmail scheme, Actress Page is just what the character she plays fears...
Although safety was the underlying cause of President Jordan's concern, we hope that the more aesthetic horrors afforded by women on wheels added to his fear What could be a more terrifying sight at nine in the morning than a shaggy-maned mannikin with powder-glazed eyes swirling down Mass. Ave. like a fugitive from a broomstick brigade? Such a sight has sent many an Advanced Standing Freshman reeling into academic probation besides delaying his emotional maturation...