Word: plums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play is a plum for the actor who plays Ui. Al Pacino would be a hand-in-glove fit for the part. Not so. Physically, he slopes about the stage in a Neanderthal manner and adopts a metronomic, tongue-darting tic. He is good at evoking the image of a sometimes sniveling, sometimes snarling, power-hungry hood, but the role demands more. Ui must resemble a sinister Chap lin. He must possess a chilling, demonic mesmerism. Pacino displays neither...
...gray plum tree on the brownish rice paper is twisty and knuckled with age. Plum trees regenerate themselves each year, and here the new sprouts burst like porcupine quills from the bark. The brush strokes have an extraordinary intensity-not so much delicacy as martial precision: one imagines the brush slashing down and up like a sword as it described the pair of sharply angular branches that project to the left of the tree. And so it probably did; for the painter, Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) was the son of a warrior family, raised...
Whether you thought of the picture as cold or warm, the plum blossom throbbed with the youthful emotions of the painter. Probably Keiko had painted it just...
When Keiko presents him with one of her paintings, it is of a plum blossom "as large as a baby's face," mixing the colors red and white...
...Lowell House's new master within the next week or so. The new master will take over from Zeph Stewart, professor of Greek and Latin. Several professors have reportedly turned down the Lowell mastership, considered Harvard's most prestigious--an indication that masterships in general are less of a plum now than they once were...