Word: sphinx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also one of the most gifted and accomplished literary entertainers now writing in English. He tells his apparently outrageous story wryly and wisely, by seedily leading his central characters from a Canadian carnival to the London stage, and then to a tumultuous mating with a monstrously ugly Swiss sphinx named Leisl Vitzipiit-zli. The people are brilliant talkers, but when they natter on too long, the highly theatrical author causes a grotesque face to appear at a window, drops someone through a trap door or stages a preposterous recognition scene. A master illusionist himself, Davies well deserves a packed house...
...Mystery of Perry Clews. A modern extension of Shakespeare's "Pericles" by John Cromwell '36. Fairly confusing--the riddle of the Sphinx in this version become "Who hit Nelly in the belly?" There's no answer, of course. At Adams House, April 29-May 1, at 8 p.m., and on May 1 also at 11 p.m. Tickets...
Note for James Levine (rhymes with divine): your new Aida [Feb. 23] stinks (rhymes with sphinx...
...image of Cléo de Mérode, a courtesan who so enraptured Paris society in the '90s that even Proust is said to have murmured "Gloria in excelsis Cléo!" when she walked into Maxim's, fused with those of Cleopatra and the Sphinx. So what could be more natural than to make her a votive cosmetic box, filled with souvenirs of Egypt...
Unable to penetrate her mystery, (So easy to look at/So hard to define) he can only, in true poet's fashion, give her names--"sweet virgin angel, sweet love of my life...scorpio sphinx in a calico dress...glamorous nymph with an arrow and bow"--and finally, simply, ask of her, "Don't ever leave me/Don't ever...