Word: mona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Virtuoso Stock. Martin's patient is Lord Fortnum (Ralph Richardson), who lives in morbid fear of turning into a bed sitting room. He eventually does, of course. Just the way Penelope's Mum (Mona Washbourne) turns into a dresser and her Dad (Arthur Lowe) into a parrot, while Penelope herself (Rita Tushingham) takes 17 months to give birth to one baby and about 37 seconds to deliver herself of a second. All this goes on while the police (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) fly overhead in a rusted-out patrol car suspended from the end of a helium...
...friend Tom, a fellow Mather orphan, arrived at his six-man quaint to find all the bedrooms padlocked and reserved with signs for "Dave and Betsy." "Steve and Joanne," "Mona and The Madman," "Ken," and "Crazy Al." The living room was filled to chest level with barbells, broken furniture, and several Persian rugs and boxes of knickknacks Ken had culled from a couple of profitable years on the Lampoon business board...
Latter-day biographers, including Britain's Sir Kenneth Clark, have presumed that Leonardo was a homosexual, citing as part of their evidence the equivocal smile of the Mona Lisa and the faintly cold, faintly remote quality of his drawings...
Taking its title and its cue from Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, the final moments of the play are unbelievably lyrical. Queenie is offstage. In her place, we watch Smitty (Tom Roulston), the young innocent who has become a cruel opportunist, try to express his honest concern for Mona (Frank Storace). Under Patricia Flynn's direction, the conversation, the pleading, the reaching, and the grappling tumbles out so quickly that an audience can't sort out all that is happening. We see love as the confusing and desperate and tortured state it sometimes it. And, for once, we feel it, when...
...essence, Kolář glorifies the printed phrase while simultaneously reducing it to mosaics of decorative rubble. A basrelief of a butterfly is emblazoned with syllables from a 17th century Latin text on the natural sciences, together with scraps of the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa. A bust of Queen Nefertiti is studded with bits of picture postcards, advertising folders, magazine illustrations and postage stamps...