Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blonde, intense Grace Hartigan, 38, has gone through more technical phases than either of her colleagues. She had her School of Paris period, her pure abstract period, and her time with the Old Masters. Then in 1955, "I began to look outside, to look around me, and I got involved with this whole area down here on the Lower East Side." As in City Life II, her colors are pounded into every available space, her strokes seem committed out of rage; the effect is one of extraordinary power...
...cold a hand. Called Pour Lucrece in French, it offers-in the Aix-en-Provence of 1868-variations on the old tale of the violated Roman matron who, after bidding her family avenge her, committed suicide. It opens in the best Giraudoux style of artificial high comedy. The ultra-pure wife of Aix's overrighteous new judge, by cutting dead everyone involved in sexual intrigue, even the innocent, deceived mates, is rocking the town with scandal. When one decent husband's eyes are opened, his affectionate if promiscuous wife harshly berates the prude. Then, drugging the virtuous lady...
...itself-violated Lucrèce theme sounds louder chords, as the pure lady bids the rake kill himself only for him to be killed in a duel, as the righteous judge rejects the wife he thinks was raped and she takes poison, rejecting life itself, Giraudoux's artificial story remains scrupulously behind glass. But gusts of realistic rain or melodramatic sleet from time to time beat against it. Giraudoux cleverly lets his characters remark how tragedy is jostling farce, or drama is encroaching on comedy. But the play, as it plunges over rapids in which both men and women...
...considerable style. Christopher Fry has conveyed Giraudoux's gloved, sheathed, scented prose with great adroitness, and Roger Furse's sets and Dior's gowns enhance the provincially elegant atmosphere. If much of the acting is simply competent and Mary Ure in the difficult role of the pure woman suggests mere marble rather than flesh on which ice has formed, Vivien Leigh's errant lady is conceivably the high point of her career...
...breakfast-table reading of many a hurried city fellow-such is the nature of progress-now includes not only the back of the cereal box but also the fascinating claims on his carton of chilled orange juice. With such prominent assurances as "100% pure," "no sugar, water or preservatives added," and "packed under continuous inspection," he is led to believe that the company president squeezed the juice directly into the carton with his own hands. Last week that belief suffered a blow that could set off the rediscovery of fresh oranges. In the Florida citrus industry's biggest scandal...