Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other half of which is a Moliere farce, Les Precieuses Ridicules. Ghelderode's play is bitter, ambiguous at times to the point of obscurity, but a fearsome dramatic tension is maintained for the very reason that one is unsure of the details of the situation. It involves a pseudo-farcical biplay between a king waiting for the dying of his wife and his all-too-knowing clown, leading to a frightening and tragic revelation...
...Domenica, blasted Italy's Cinemactress Sophia Loren and divorced Moviemaker Carlo Ponti, for their Mexican marriage by proxy last month. Because Ponti's first marriage still exists in the eyes of the church, said the newspaper, the pair are "public sinners," and if they live together in "pseudo-marriage," they are guilty of concubinage and liable to excommunication. Living together in a rented house in West Los Angeles, Sophia and her mate put their love before their religion. Said Actress Loren: "Everything I am today, I owe to Carlo ... the only man I have ever loved and therefore...
...glooming about the bulls and that other, more ferocious enemy-the crowd-he was busy swilling expensive hooch ("We'd pay through the nose for this," he says) or displaying a sweaty torso effectively scarred by the CBS makeup department. He also lapsed into some totally unrelated pseudo-Hemingway moods with high-priced ($120 an hour) Fashion Model Suzy Parker, a sort of un-simpática Brett Ashley. (Suzy: Was it good today? Jack...
...Cleveland Symphony), Composer Bucci, 33, grew up "with a bassoon in my ear," resisted all family efforts to steer him away from music. He spent eight years in a Manhattan cold-water walk-up trying to learn to be a composer and being psychoanalyzed (his Tale suffers from pseudo-Freudian symbolism). Bucci failed to attract real attention until he set James Thurber's Thirteen Clocks to music for TV (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). Says Director Boris Goldovsky of Tangle-wood's opera department: "Bucci provides something which we have missed with most modern composers. The trouble with them...
...with city life, returns only to find his favorite hangout, the village hotel, now turned into a bustling hospital. Parpalaid begs Knock to reveal his secret, which is what the charlatan terms the "science of medicine." Romains is deadly serious in his concern with modern man's susceptibility to pseudo-scientific worship, and Knock's final manipulations of Parpalaid result in an ironic and completely unsentimental ending...