Word: garden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adam's Fall. From the Lenin, Kozlov and Nixon went on to play "Can You Top This?" at Peterhof, Peter the Great's lavish palace, with its trick garden gadgets to douse the unwary with fountain sprays. When Nixon tried out his rudimentary Russian on the crowd in the gardens, Kozlov topped him by commenting in rudimentary English: "Very good." Then, recalling that the Peterhofs 560 statues had been buried for safety during the Nazis' World War II siege of the city, Kozlov pointed to figures of Adam and Eve, separated by a wide garden, and cracked...
...years that Miss McKenna has been seen in this country, she has done a superlative job in two recent plays, Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden and Morton Wishengrad's The Rope Dancers. But she has also recreated an impressive number of classic roles. She has given us a warm Sister Juana and a wonderful Maggie Wylie; and an unmatchably transcendent Saint Joan, which may serve as a yardstick for all future performances by an actress. In Shakespeare, she has now offered us a memorable Hamlet (yes, the title role!), Viola, and Lady Macbeth. And I have not cited...
...Staithes, a fishing village on the Yorkshire coast, painting the grinding poverty and bold courage of North Sea fisherfolk. In her thirties and forties she was off traveling with the circus, camping with gypsies, setting up easels in the ring at Blackfriars, hanging over the stalls in Covent Garden, sleeping under tent flaps, recording on canvas her impressions of the entertainment world. At 51 she was named Dame Commander, British Empire. Seven years later Dame Laura became the third female in 200 years to crack the hallowed full membership of the Royal Academy of Art. When the British government wanted...
...outwardly butter-smooth, inwardly alum-bitter. Her cousin Woody is an effeminate dandy swooning before his hi-fi set, while sister Peggy is briskly infighting for some stock proxies to oust another cousin who "robbed us of damned near every red cent we own!" The Adam in this snaky Garden of Eden is Peggy's husband Barney Callahan. a morosely charming outlander (Massachusetts Irish) who convinces the troubled Barbara that she is Eve-with disastrous consequences...
...achievement does not seem impressive mainly because it is far from enough to keep the Garden going. "It's all rundown now," mourned one of the maids last week, "but it's still got a lot of what you'd call dignity. The same people keep coming back. Oh, they go away complaining, but they come back because there's nowhere else like this. Now where will they...