Word: seene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continued Greene, he found the Argentine whisky he was served "interesting but not very good." Er, and politics? "I am a great admirer of Fidel Castro," said Greene, after which Miss Ocampo allowed as how she was "an admirer of Gandhi and Nehru but had not been converted." Last seen, Greene was boarding a riverboat bound for Asuncion, Paraguay, for final research on his book, Travels with My Aunt...
Through the windows may be seen its spacious, 170-acre formal garden, marshaled with airy grace into a tapestry of boxwood mazes, promenades, canals, fountains, staircases, statuary and grottoes that stretch to the horizon. The ornate Chambre du Roi, which lies to the left of the Grand Salon, illustrates the other French addition to the baroque. Luscious nudes hover overhead in trompe-l'eoil with voluptuousness that the Italians never envisioned-or permitted themselves...
...matter-of-factness instilled in the love scenes lend to even-out the wildly different qualities tossed-about in the play (and Schmidt's notes concede this diffusion) in favor of repetitious and uninteresting mannerism. About the middle of the second act we begin to feel we've seen it all before in the first act. Troilus washing his face recalls the Trojan's first act entrance, actors who project physical characteristics early in the play keep projecting them and, as in the Loeb's Balcony, everyone is always clutching at one another to a degree dramatically unjustifiable even...
...yellow piece for its greensward, and Manhattan's Whitney proudly hangs the 23-ft.-long Tenerife in its lobby. Thanks to his training as an architect, Grosvenor's work is not only handsome but portable - indeed, some times floatable. A swooping, 40-ft.-long black T, recently seen at The Hague's Gemeentemuseum, has been taken apart and stored in a warehouse (the exhibition of which it was a part was supposed to travel to Paris, but May's riots intervened). A 21-ft.-long pair of red floats will soon be anchored a few yards...
Sloganeering. At 54, Shapiro feels that he has been back-stabbed by "the heirs to the kingdom of Wall Street-the latest generation of betrayers and destroyers . . . that practices infantilism on a scale which has never been seen...