Word: narcissus
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...points out. In fact, the family has become an enclave of private and very special spiritual excellence -specifically the nonphony Glass family, of which Seymour the elder, who has undergone martyrdom-by-suicide. was guru. Rejecting its patents of superiority, Miss McCarthy sees the Glass family as "a terrifying narcissus pool." And it is on the troubling question of Seymour's suicide that she sternly calls to order the little acrobats in Seymour's moral gymnasium. "Did Seymour commit suicide because he had married a phony?" she asks. "Or because he had been lying, his author had been...
...December. With the success of How to Succeed, Morse has finally developed confidence in himself, and the brat in him may be departing forever. He stops the show with a song, delivered into a mirror, that is such a moving paean to self-love it probably makes Narcissus roll over in his grave and take another look into the pool. It is called I Believe in You. At last, Bobby Morse really seems...
...gilt shops make the troops royally wel come. City fathers entertain the officers at an orgiastic banquet that precedes a midnight trip to the Mashinka Drohitz' spectacular red-light district. There less than 24 hours after the army's arrival Embers commander and a prostitute called Black Narcissus die in agony from some unnamed disease...
...giant sea urchin in the foreground represents "le real shape of le earth as discovered by le American Satellite Explorer Two" (actually, Vanguard Beta). In his dream, Dali's young Columbus meets not Indians but symbols of past and future. He is greeted by a transparent Saint Narcissus, whose body is formed partly of flies. Why? Easy, says Dali: "Le French cavalry que attacked Gerona in 1808 was defeated by many, many flies from zee grave of Narcissus." Dali maintains that Columbus was born in Gerona...
...Back in San Francisco, Dr. Heil traced references to such a work in the Cellini literature, built up documentation that a marble Cosimo had indeed been carved by Cellini. A memorandum written by Cellini one year before his death in 1571 itemized his marble work, including the Apollo and Narcissus rediscovered in Florence's Boboli Garden in 1940, a polished marble Crucifix now in the Escorial near Madrid, a bust of the Duchess Eleanora (still lost), and a marble bust of Cosimo. The inventory of Cellini's studio taken after his death also listed the Cosimo, noting that...