Word: cats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shaw's Cleopatra has feline forebears. During her sixteenth year, Caesar does not, as so many critics have maintained, turn a cat into a queen (Shakespeare shows us the Queen Cleopatra); he turns an untrained kitten into a full-grown cat. Miss Nye is careful always to preserve her felinity -- through the way she lounges on the right paw of the Sphinx, indulges in catty grimaces, voices her petulant "But me! me!! me!!! what is to become of me?," plans Ftatateeta's murder with paw-like hands, and poses with crossed arms at the final fade-out. An occasional huskiness...
...explained Exhibit Director Mrs. Janet Freud (whose father-in-law claims kinship to Sigmund). "Now the child can control Mama and Papa. The mother can go to the sink or she can iron at the ironing board. The mouse goes down his mousehole, the dog into his doghouse. The cat chases the mouse, and the girl can carry a letter." What does Father do? "He goes along with the mother. He can take the dishes out of the sink or pick up the letter...
Some Sterile Cats. Building upon Miss Lyon's theory, other researchers have explained a mystery about calico cats. In theory, such a cat has to be a female because its black and orange patches must result from two different X chromosomes. What seemed to be male calico cats have turned out, on study of their cells, to have two X chromosomes as well as a Y. They are an intersex form, and they are sterile...
Unfortunately, there is no subtlety or coherence in the acting. Bronia Stefan, as the nurse, plays too broadly. She seems to be Blanche du Bois and Maggie the Cat rolled into one, but by parodying Tennessee Williams (something Williams himself must learn to avoid) she is not playing Edward Albee. Her self-conscious and mannered acting conflicts with the play's style. A characterization, such as Ernest McKinnon's Jack, built by alternating laughing and mumbling, evokes nothing more than the character of a laugher and a mumbler. This effect may be what the actor strived...
...word star is flexible." Beyond German, she speaks Spanish, Italian, French and English, and is an established star in the French, German and Italian cinema. In the parts that have built her fame, she has almost invariably been a sex kitten ever ready to sleep with a passing cat. Hollywood hired her to star opposite Paul Newman in a picture at M-G-M called The Prize. Newman has won the Nobel Prize in literature, and she plays a Swedish girl who guides him around Stockholm...