Word: mortals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler -Hedda's new husband nattering away with his auntie. Instead, in a startling departure from the script, Maggie Smith as Hedda strides silently onto the empty stage. Clad severely in white, she is pale and tense, her features a mask of mortal exhaustion and despair that might have been painted by Edvard Munch. She smokes, paces, contemplates herself in a mirror, stares moodily, doubles over in a spasm of nausea. All of the contradictory qualities that are to make up her mordantly gripping performance she foreshadows in mime: hauteur and anxiety, narcissism...
...concept. Make no mistake. All About H. Hatterr is a philosophical novel that deals, however obliquely, with such eternal conundrums as love, free will and appearance and reality. Its protagonist formulates no doctrines. But without ever quite losing his innocence, he does arrive at a visionary acceptance of all mortal matters as so much moonlight on the Ganges. "To hell with judging!" he concludes. "I have no opinions, I am beaten, and I just accept all this phenomena, this diamond-cut-diamond game, this human horseplay, this topsy-turvyism, as Life, as contrast...
...significant differences. For one thing, burned children are not victims of deliberate, conscious assault. Their injuries seem accidental, but actually result from the adult's unconscious wishes: the mother who "accidentally" leaves the boiling soup where the child can reach it, for example. Battering parents inflict terrible, sometimes mortal injury without expressing guilt, and they often voice open hostility to the child. In contrast, the mother of a burned child, in Mrs. Martin's words, typically shows "marked guilt, which helps preserve a virtuous front (necessary because the child is not felt to be all bad) and wards...
...Surrealists nor as incisive as some Pop artists, he yet fills a niche in which form and humor are as indispensable to each other as wit and word in a limerick. "I see painting as poetry," he says. "Humor, after all is the reminder that we are mortal...
...jagged patches of orange, yellow and brown suggest a Southwestern desert landscape. The tall, sail-shaped stripes of Regales evoke a boat race amid shafts of sun and wind. In Icare, the flame-colored, bird-like shapes against an indigo background may well reflect the Greek legend of the mortal who tried to fly to the sun and ended up plunging into the sea in flames. But as in most of his works, says Mategot, the title did not come until after the design was completed...