Word: chameleon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fast shuffle of historical cards from different decks, imperial Rome, Emerson's Boston, Wren's London. There are, as always, several Lowells: Lowell the improper Bostonian, the politically engaged, the scholar, traveler and eclectic New England importer of foreign cultures. Lowell the poet has not only the chameleon's ability to change the color of his verse to fit the subject but that wizard lizard's faculty of independently focusing each eye. The left Lowell eye may be modishly on the topical-Che Guevara, police, R.F.K., student riots, Dr. Spock. But the right eye glints backwards...
...screen, then surrounds him with the sea, puts him in the middle of a hockey game, the Mounties on parade, Montreal's skyline, and a hundred other spectacular Canadian sights. The exhibit's faults are derived from its virtues. Except for the African chameleon, there are few living creatures who can see in back of their heads; in theory, a film in the round is a dazzling Disney process, but at any given moment, 180° of it are wasted...
...know anything about what is supposed to be 'the real me.' I guess that's why I'm an actress-a chameleon on a tartan." With that translucent self-appraisal, Rosemary Harris avoids direct comment on the fact that most theater people consider her the most talented actress on the U.S. stage today. Besides, she adds, "it's bad form to talk about one's art. I just like to pin mine to a wall and watch it bleed...
Wherever she plays, it is the play and the part that bring out the chameleon-and the satisfaction. "If a performance has gone well," she says, "that is the elation. That is what sends me singing up the stairs to my dressing room. Not the applause. I feel released and high and sent and fulfilled. If I've worked well and the tensions are gone-then I'd be perfectly happy if somebody called, 'Five minutes,' and we started all over. I'd be ready...
Regular Guy. Pat, meanwhile, has reacted stoically to the brouhaha. In his few appearances at public functions with Luci he has displayed studied sang-froid and said exactly what his position called for: virtually nothing. Luci's fiancé, an acquaintance observed, has "a chameleon personality that allows him to fit in anywhere...