Word: milis
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...vehicles of sprightly choreography, with only the vaguest relations to plot. Anamarie Sarazin's Evil Fairy was a gratifyingly serpentine siren, complete with green dragon wings, gaudy sequins and decadent black stockings a la Toulouse-Lautrec; the wedding guests, from Tom Thumb (Tony Catanzaro) to a White Cat (Debra Mili) were equally charming and improbable...
...best of the color silk-screen paintings, like Retroactive I, 1964, are such soaring bel canto that one is apt to skip over the odd resonance of their images. Consider the red patch in the lower right corner: a silk-screen enlargement of a stroboscopic photo by Gjon Mili of a walking nude, done in imitation of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which was itself based on an earlier sequential photo by Marey. The image stutters backward through technological time. But then it also looks like the grief-stricken Adam and Eve in Masaccio's Expulsion from Eden...
...relatively speaking; New York Local 771, for example, which comprises TV as well as movie film editors, has nearly 1,000 members of whom 90 are female. But women film editors have attained a disproportionate level of accomplishment. Among the top practitioners in the field are such women as Mili Bonsignori (Hunger in America, What If the Dream Comes True? for CBS), Thelma Schoonmaker (Woodstock) and Dede Allen (Bonnie and Clyde, Little...
...phallus of the West that every sketch, painting or dish tends to be greeted with the same ritually stupefied reverence. Hence la légende Picasso, which has been energetically prodded along by writers like Hélène Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves, he descends...
...finishing strong underground bunkers for the control-tower crew of Khe Sanh's airstrip and the evacuation hospital, rushing to complete the work before the threatened battle erupts. Meanwhile, the doctors must make do in cramped quarters: the operating room is an empty metal box used to ship mili tary goods and measuring only...