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...Swan said that in her set, boys and girls always stripped for tea. Jayne Mansfield dropped her shoulder straps to show photographers considerable acreage of a "head-to-toe" poison-ivy rash. And a New York censor ruled that an art-movie producer would have to banish his surrealist Muse or put some clothes...
...wife at the border. Da Ponte boldly demanded the post of Poet to the Theaters. Asked by the Emperor how many plays he had written, Da Ponte for once gave an honest reply: "None, Sire." The Emperor was impressed. "Good, good! Then we shall have a virgin muse," he said...
...Island"); and even so, Howe's behavior might simply be due to his well-known indolence. His passive temperament has in any case communicated itself to the play. All too often Venus covers her flesh, Mars muffles his drums and Minerva swallows her words-while even oftener the Muse of Comedy turns her back...
...decades have Manhattan muse um-and gallery-goers witnessed such a heaping helping of British art as is spread out before them this season. The main course, in the Manhattan Museum of Modern Art's "Masters of British Paint ing" show, is a 150-year survey of 31 artists (see color pages), ranging from the visions of William Blake to the hallucinatory portraits of Francis Bacon, from the landscapes of Turner and Constable to the cool, elegant abstractions of Ben Nicholson and Stanley Spencer's portrayal of a New Jerusalem near his green and pleasant home town...
...fact, however, that this noble blood strain has not been able to maintain its pure position. The entrance of Commander Whitehead into commerce is only the most obvious example of internal difficulty. The Muse no longer smiles constantly on that house. D.H. Lawrence and Ezra Pound, proud members of the Line, have, brought credit, but showed signs of a weakening of the force which ran through Longfellow...