Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hero (Donald Madden) spends all of his stage time in an unrelieved agony of mental and physical disintegration that ends in death. His bitchy, sex-starved wife (Anne Meacham) is addicted to plaintive monologues and a frustrated effort to seduce the Japanese barman. The barman (Jon Lee) is a model of stoic restraint and may represent serenity. He also represents something Williams does not admire: a planned hibernation of the spirit in which one evades any commitment to love, hate or passion. Instead of eloquence, the play offers truncated, disjointed sentences. Inertia usurps the role of action; the prevailing mood...
...Baroque as it suited his purpose, pleased his fancy, or kindled his architectural imagination. He might be called a virtuoso of the eclectic. St. Paul's combines coupled columns from the Louvre with the triple-layered dome of Mansart's Hotel des Invalides. It served as a model for the U.S. Capitol dome. At St. Mary leBow, he placed a pyramidal spire atop a Renaissance balustrade atop an antique classical temple, all atop a belfry that stands slightly catercorner from the church itself...
...Scull, Pop-art patron and wife of the owner of a fleet of New York City taxicabs. "I'll never, never wear a see-through without a body stocking," she insists, remembering the passing pedestrian who had one look through her first one before "his glasses fell off." Model Penelope Tree substitutes a satin bra for the body stocking, refusing to go without anything. "It's hard enough getting people to pay attention to what you're saying," she says, "without focusing their attention on your bosom...
What sculpture did Daumier really model? How does bronze cast differ from the original clay? Scarcity of documents about Daumier sculpture create problems for the historian. None of the sculptures were cast in bronze during Daumier's life; since then many casts have been made from the clay originals and works of unknown origin have appeared...
...community organizations that will be invited to join the committee are the Mission United Neighborhood Improvement Team, the Parker Hill-Fenway Area Planning Action Council, the Board of the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center, the Jamaica Plain Area Wide Health Committee, and the Health and Welfare Committee of the Model Cities Board. They have not yet been officially notified of the the committee's decision...