Word: noblemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Satins & Smiles. It was an age of spectacular superficiality, of fetes and fireworks, of lords and ladies alike bedecked in paints, powders and silk. La Tour portrayed his clients as they wished to see themselves, studiously recording their brilliant satins and laces, ignoring the facial lines of aging noblemen and their mistresses. But he was enough of an ironist not to ignore their unreal smiles and bored, malicious eyes...
...Spain's informalists, such as Luis Feito, present a modern vision of ancient agonies bred in the scorching sun. They convey a sense of decaying grandeur, human endurance and often bizarre imagination. Only 324 years before, below this newly established refuge of Iberian abstraction, Philip IV's noblemen staged a bullfight in the nearby Júcar River, charging the wading beasts from gondolas built in the shape of dolphins and sea monsters...
Iolanthe conveniently divides its chorus into two parts: noblemen and fairies. The noblemen in the current production have been inadequately directed all around, and they neither sing clearly nor move in unison. For the most part the fairies fare better, but they too have their troubles. One had a noticeable case of laryngitis last night...
Susan Dubiner's costumes are an odd lot. The noblemen wear something resembling a toga and wigs that look as if they came out of a toy disguise kit. But maybe it's how they wear their wigs, and not the wigs themselves, that seems so ludicrous. At any rate Miss Dubiner's mass-produced fairy outfits serve well...
...instantly suspected of being involved in the plot to do him in. Suspicion crystallized into widespread indignation when some three months later she married the profligate and domineering Earl of Bothwell, believed to be her lover and the actual murderer of her husband. A group of Protestant noblemen, who had always been hostile to their Catholic Queen, seized Mary and forced her to abdicate. She soon escaped to England and threw herself on the mercy of Elizabeth, her cousin and longtime rival...