Word: sheila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pick an idea that enthuses me. I discuss it with Doubleday and with my wife Sheila. Then I take a year finding out in some depth about the people and the organization." The voice belongs to Author Arthur Hailey, 51, summing up the techniques that have earned him an honest million or more in the past dozen years, since he switched first from a job as a low-echelon executive in Toronto to TV writing, and then to blockbuster fiction...
Some performances are exceptionally good. Sheila Hart's Penny Sycamore, the zany lady who becomes a playwright because a typewriter was mistakenly delivered to her address, is brilliantly performed: she has assimilated the character so well that her dialogue does not exist as lines, a guile-lessness making at once for high comedy and fine acting. Llody Schwartz's Kolenkhov is a natural scene-stealer. He pronounces "The Monte Carlo Ballet" with just the right Bela Lugosi intonation, he talks and gestures like a proud Rasputin fallen on bad times, and his Romanov leer is so hilariously Russian that...
...intricate scalloping. The shaggy tapestries of Poland's Magdalena Abakanowicz have the look of untanned animal hides. The loose, three-dimensional web of New Yorker Sherri Smith's Volcano no. 10 hangs clear of the wall so it can be seen from either side. Paris-based Nebraskan Sheila Hicks abandoned the loom altogether to create her modular The Principal Wife, eight individual units that hang from a rod and can be added to indefinitely...
...favor with modern architects and interior designers, who like the handmade, one-of-a-kind individuality they bring to austere apartment and office buildings. They also appeal to the young. A few weeks ago a white-bearded professor from France's tradition-bound Academic des Beaux-Arts asked Sheila Hicks to give a course in tapestries, "but not the factory kind." To his young students, even the highly abstract "woven paintings" of Mategot are out of date...
...thought she had portrayed the most convincing emotion onstage that night when she belted out hurt anger over someone's ripping a yellow cloth to shreds. Jonathan Kramer later concurred. "Her performance is so original," he said. "She plays Sheila like a Virgo. I mean, she plays it like a real cunt with backbone. She's the best Sheila I've seen in years...