Word: rhinocerosity
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Winning her first big role in 1955 as a cabin boy in Orson Welles's production of Moby Dick, she later became an original member of the English Stage Company, which gave her a range of experience from Wycherley to Ionesco, from youth to old age: she once played...
STRAIGHT PLAYS: Broadway is already battening its booby hatches for the arrival from London of The Hostage, not so much because of the nature of the play (a young British soldier is held captive in a Dublin brothel) but because of the playwright, who promises his presence. At a London...
In the play's climax, a captured Lawrence is subjected to torture and homosexual assault by the Turks, and Rattigan plainly suggests that in the attack the will-god broke and fell, as Lawrence realized at last the truth of his own perversion. Not everyone agreed with Playwright Rattigan...
Soon the only human left in sight is Olivier, muffling his usual heroic style to play-in what the London Times described as "a performance of infinite finesse"*-a mild little boozer who does not agree with the new rhinos that "once civilization is swept away, we shall all feel...
Among the finest items: a bronze ritual vessel from China in the form of a rhinoceros, dating from the 12th century B.C.; a Mogul miniature painting of Krishna, tense as a strung bow, awaiting his beloved; and a fantastic carpet from 17th century Lahore (see color). The carpet begins at...