Word: rubensian
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Though the increasingly Rubensian Elizabeth Taylor is a good choice to play the aging actress heroine, Prince has photographed his star so uncharitably that she looks like a raunchy barmaid. Most of the supporting players, including the talented Len Cariou, are stage actors with no screen presence. At least Diana Rigg and Hermione Gingold, playing the cattiest of the women in Hugh Wheeler's overly bitchy script, provide Night Music with a glimmer of razzle-dazzle...
HEREIN is the most grotesque sort of debauchery, growing only gradually out of an urbane but decadent sensuality. Gourmet sophisticates become maniacal gluttons; a plump school teacher becomes a ravenous Rubensian voluptuary. The characters are, for the most part, reluctant even to talk about the secret of their gathering--that they have come as suicides. Gradually, their festival of grand cuisine dissolves in a death-charged, sex-charged bacchanal...
Grosz got to the U.S. in 1932, and started following his mother's advice. Instead of bludgeoning cartoons, he drew soothing pictures of Rubensian nudes, quiet beaches, bustling cities. Ever since, Grosz has been busy exploring life in the U.S. with a loving brush...
First-nighters (among them: the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Edward Johnson, some of his staff and stars) started right out applauding H. A. Condell's first-act scenery: his baroque boudoir, hung with Rubensian nudes, could hardly have been more apt. The Marschallin's monologue, sung by Vienna State Opera Star Maria Reining, had them clapping again. But the brightest successes were two U.S.-born girls. One was Virginia Haskins (Sophie), a pert, tiny soprano who made her first hits in the Chicago Opera Co. and on Broadway in Carousel. The other was a shy upstate...
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