Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...master spy-within-a-spy. The extent of his treason was discovered after war broke out in 1914: Russia knew the Austro-Hungarian and German war plans. Two fellow officers visited Alfred Redl one night, left him a loaded pistol. Alfred Redl took the hint, stood before a mirror and fired a bullet through his brain...
Miss Todd is good because her characterization blends the qualities of the adolescent girl and the ruthless woman. In one scene, we see her primping like a vain child before her large oval mirror; in another, she is the inscrutable defendant sitting stiffly on a bench at her own nerve-racking trial. Could this girl have put arsenic in her lover's cocoa...
...infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life and the next, they glide through mirrors-Cocteau's favorite symbol of the doorway to death ("Look at yourself in a mirror all your life, and you will see death at work like bees in a hive of glass...
Third prize went to Manhattan's Yasuo Kuniyoshi, whose works sometimes have the taste and balance of good Oriental art. His shrill, finicky Fish Kite did not. Joseph Hirsch's fourth-prizewinning view of Nine Men in a men's-room mirror was as skillfully done as anything in the show, and as dour. Hirsch had caught the cold light reflected from glass and white tiling, dramatically illuminated the begrimed and weary workmen cleaning up in its glare...
...cast, without exception, is excellent Peggy Allenby, as Linda Loman, presents a subtly shaded characterization in a part that could have been no more than a mirror of the salesman's mind. As Willy's sons, Darren McGavin and Paul Langton become distinct individuals, each with some of their father's traits. Willy's brother Ben and his friend Charley are both finely-drawn by Royal Beal and Howard Smith...