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After the wedding she begins to realize that her Pygmalion is rather stuffy, and he sees that his Galatea is resisting the finer things he is trying to offer her. One night he comes home from a hard day juggling tax forms to discover her curled up with Madame Bovary. "I feel so sorry for her because she's trapped," she announces. Not long thereafter, he hires a private investigator (Topol) to check on her constancy...
...Amateur. In the U.S., Polaroid has upgraded many employees by setting up a unique apprentice system, in which blue-collar workers are assigned to become aides to experienced researchers. "In about two years we find that these people have become almost a Pygmalion problem," says Land. "They have become creative." Indeed, Land believes that almost anything can be accomplished, including the remaking of people. In his drive for breakthroughs, scientific and social, he is always experimenting. While visiting London two years ago, he startled his driver by exclaiming: "Did you know that I am an addict? I am addicted...
...pattern of Rubek's earlier life is a sort of Pygmalion theme in reverse: the sculptor has found a perfect woman and taken from her the soul he needs for his marble masterpiece. Irene, the model for the statue, has loved him desperately but without the slightest response. When the work is complete she leaves him, her soul shattered and his ground away by the forces of creation. Art has died as well, for Rubek, in his bitterness at the loss of Irene, can sculpt only the faces of animals behind the masks of wealthy men who come...
...doll-house like representation of a Metal Exhibit (Joost Schmidt 1934) complete with boat propellers and model airplanes, shows the creative richness of the Bauhaus that encouraged a tradition in education as well as art. The Bauhaus brought art off its pedestal and seduced even the common Pygmalion; the Busch should bring such attractive nuisances up from the basement more often...
...Metamorphoses, Avery Shreiber is a comic treasure. Rather resembling a stocky, mustachioed Sicilian just off the grape treadmill, he is a muscle-brained Vulcan. Enraged to find his bride Venus cuckolding him with Mars, he exposes the pair in a hilariously crafty bungle. He is equally diverting as a Pygmalion who cannot get over how "real" his diaphanously clad Galatea is, a true lovely of a girl played by Mary Frann. Another splendid addition to the company is a lissome black dancer and actress, Paula Kelly, whose Circean seductiveness is apparent far past the footlights...