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...name conjures up a heavy-browed, sad, hawk-eyed man, with a straight nose, mouth firm to the point of cruelty, and a flowing silver beard. In contrast to that awesome image of masculine rigor, it also recalls the dark, soft femininity of his most famed creation-the Mono. Lisa. This painting, which hangs in the Louvre, is probably as well known as any in existence-though few admirers pretend to grasp it fully. A portrait of the wife of a Florentine merchant named Francesco del Giocondo, it has been the subject of a towering stack of critical works. Summarizing...
Students of design have a name for this. They call it "the fashionable mono-buttock...
Since the Greek for bad is kakos, it is pretty clear that the Greek for today's fashionably mono-buttocked female would be Cacopyge...
...product of Rembrandt's last, dirt-poor years, it glowed with a human warmth and depth that his earlier, slicker works lacked. The sitter's pensive, bloodshot eyes pierced the murk in which Rembrandt had muffled him; his melancholy, tight little smile reminded some visitors of the Mono, Lisa. Like her, the Young Man seemed to be silently inviting the spectator to enter the timeless, painted world in which he stood...
...these one-woman dramas for more than fifteen years, Miss Skinner undoubtedly knows their limitations. As vehicles for tourde-force acting, however, they are in perfect order. And, as an actress of virtuoso brilliance, Miss Skinner probably also realizes that she could make a successful evening out of a mono-dramatization of Harvard's "Catalogue of Courses"--with selections from "Parictal Rules" as a spicy epilogue...