Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HUGHIE. Jason Robards and Eugene O'Neill prove incomparable stage mates once again in this engrossing and poignant-study of a man's need for a false mirror wherein he may see himself...
...once his eyebrows make a break for his brainpan, the tendons of his neck bulge in sudden constriction. Apoplexy? Withdrawal pains? Hangover? Not at all. Only a commuting executive giving himself his morning facial. Back home, blessedly unobserved, his wife is doing the same thing at the bathroom mirror...
...contact wearer is still far from rose-colored. Cost of fitting the lenses (after an average of six sittings) ranges from $150 to $300. Then there is the matter of removing them, a highly complicated process involving a series of postures (feet planted firmly on the floor before the mirror, back hunched, one palm cupped below the eye, the other fanned out beside it) that might seem the essence of grace in a Kabuki dancer but stir less enthusiasm when performed in a crowded ladies' room, look downright insane in a restaurant. Worse still are the moments when removal...
...Cold Hors d'Oeuvres. If it stretched the imagination, not to mention good taste, for a movie fan magazine to put Jackie Kennedy on its cover, the magazine's editors were apparently equal to the strain. Movie Mirror, in fact, is only one of six fan magazines currently featuring cover stories about Mrs. Kennedy in what might seem to be a journalistic conspiracy. And without exception, all of them combine the same provocative windup with total nondelivery inside...
HUGHIE. Jason Robards and Eugene O'Neill prove incomparable stagemates once again in this engrossing and poignant study of a man's need for a false mirror image wherein he may see himself...