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...lofty Great Hall of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week appeared a newly acquired, exquisitely graceful, 7-ft. white marble statue of the mythical Perseus victoriously displaying the severed head of the Gorgon Medusa. It was completed in 1808 by the neoclassical Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. In its first week atop its pedestal, it drew gasps of admiration from some. Others responded to its supersubtle softness and delicacy much as did the poet Keats when shown Canova's half-nude statue of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. Sniffed Keats: "Beautiful bad taste...
Whatever the difficulties of installing Volpone's four different settings in a House Dining room, one could have expected at least an attractive backdrop or two. Designer Jeremy Kagan has created something which defies description; it is to scenery what Medusa was to women...
...with moral decisions. Yet what they hear from the pulpit on Sunday seldom seems relevant to the office problems they face on Monday. "In the natural cycle of life - birth, marriage, death -the church is doing a pretty good job," says Worth Loomis, vice president of Cleveland's Medusa Portland Cement Co. "But it is nonexistent when decisions are being made in man's line of work." Applying Christianity to the decision-making process in offices and factories is the goal of a significant new form of experimental ministry in the U.S.: the industrial missions...
Acerbic Speech. Naturally, Hollywood was anxious to see the Eastern Medusa, and the Hollywood Publicists' Guild invited Mrs. Crist to address a luncheon in Beverly Hills last month. If there was an outstretched hand, she not only disdained it; she bit it. Following Frank Sinatra's light and witty talk on his life and loves ("Must have had six gag writers," mused Crist), she plunged into an acerbic speech: "Back where I come from, Hollywood is a dirty word." Said an aggrieved 20th Century-Fox publicist: "She is a snide, supercilious, sour bitch. The thing she would hate...
...second novel, is subjected to nearly as many adolescent indignities as his Biblical namesake had to suffer. Instead of being tossed down a well by envious brothers, this Joseph is tyrannized by his mother Meg, a bosomy termagant with some of the less attractive qualities of Medea, Medusa and Jocasta...