Word: proteans
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...biographer been so ill suited to write the life of a creative artist as Daniels is to write about Lester Young. When it comes to illuminating the background, he can be fitfully incisive, but when it comes to telling the story of one of jazz's most protean geniuses (which is, after all, what a biographer is supposed to do), he achieves what I would have thought impossible - he makes one of the most engrossing lives in the history of American music seem dull...
...book, small but defiantly shiny, consists of copper plates bound by four rings. Into each plate is carved a different alphabet; on the two visible pages, the Etruscan and Gothic alphabets are on display. Perhaps Davidson hopes to make a pregnant and theoretical statement about the transience and protean nature of alphabets, languages and the written medium in general. Either way, the book of copper plates is visually impressive...
...talk about Lee as a photographer, since, strictly speaking, she didn't actually take any of the photographs featured in "Projects;" rather, Lee, who has extensive formal training in photography, (including a Masters degree from NYU,) plays the role of chameleon performance artist. She orchestrates and appears as the protean subject of all of the featured photographs, assuming a different identity in each of 13 projects, including "The Drag Queen Project", "The Hispanic Project", "The Lesbian Project," "The Ohio Project," "The Punk Project" and more. Despite the diversity of the roles she assumes, Lee never fails to present herself convincingly...
DIED. KIM STANLEY, 76, protean Broadway actress, most admired for portraying a dizzying range of characters--a tomboy kid sister in William Inge's Picnic (1953), a nightclub chanteuse in Bus Stop (1955)--with notable humor and pathos; in Santa Fe, N.M. Stanley also made a few scattered but striking film appearances, earning Academy Award nominations for her roles as a deranged psychic in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and the tyrannical mother in Frances...
...also paraded his protean vocal talents on the drama-tized news show "The March of Time." (TIME magazine, which produced the program, put Welles on its cover the week of his 23rd birthday, predicting he would be no "flash in the Pantheon." The year before, Clare Boothe, soon to marry TIME?s boss Henry Luce, had put up crucial backing for the Mercury?s production of "Julius Caesar.") The story goes that he was hired when the series was airing a piece on the newly-born Dionne quintuplets - Welles played all five babies. He impersonated kings and plutocrats...