Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prints and drawings, Edward Croft-Murray, decided to warn the public by putting on a special show of fake Turners along with some originals. The idea quickly spread to other departments, and even to collectors and connoisseurs on the outside. Art Historian Sir Kenneth Clark contributed a 17th century unicorn horn; Sir Alister Hardy lent his mummified mermaid. From the museum's storerooms came the famed fabricated Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953), an Etruscan sarcophagus that was once the pride of the departments of antiquities, and the bust of Julius Caesar that graced the pages of Latin textbooks...
...closet full of chess sets, and has presented such theatrical products as Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Old Maid and the Thief and a revue based on the cartoon characters of Jules (Sick, Sick, Sick) Feiffer. Renaissance imitations have appeared all over Sunset Strip-the Unicorn, Pandora's Box, Chez Paulette, the Bit-but the closest approximation is Positano at Malibu Beach, where patrons sip $1 spumoni sodas, play Monopoly and pingpong, and take in entertainment that ranges from productions of G. B. Shaw to a nudist-colony director answering questions...
...preliminary number on the Brattle card this week is a UPA cartoon version of James Thurber's fable for our time, The Unicorn in the Garden. An expansion of the theme ("Don't count your boobies before they are hatched") serves as the main event, with Humphrey Bogart compensating for the absence of technicolor...
...same time quite palpably all three, remain vaultingly alive within theater walls, seem superbly demented in three sober dimensions? It turns out that to a notable degree, it can. For one thing, there is much of Thurber that snugly fits a kind of intimate revue. The Unicorn in the Garden and If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox are made-to-order blackout skits; The Night the Bed Fell is a natural recitation piece; Walter Mitty's secret visions make fine capsule dramas. Other bits of Thurber enhance an intimate revue by extending its horizons without violating its spirit...