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...surname is scarcely subtle) comes onstage in The Night of the Iguana with her blouse enticingly unbuttoned. Yet Hannah Jelkes in the same play is a stalwart saint of duty who has clearly transcended sex and is presented as a human being of nobility. Maggie the Cat is a tigerish temptress in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, though her prey is her husband, whom she is trying to lure away from alcohol and his homosexual leanings. An evil temptress is rich, aging Flora Goforth in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, who tries to corrupt...
Sleepwalking Tour. The tension should build, but instead it is dissipated. This is partly because the playgoer knows from the first skitterish-tigerish encounter that Chicken and Myrtle are fated to be sexmates. The dialogue is surprisingly colloquial for Williams and lacks the requisite venom or eloquence. Most damagingly of all, the play becomes a sleepwalking tour of the dusty attic of memory. Between coughing bouts, Lot recalls his Oedipalsy life with mother, and Myrtle shuffles through an account of her showgirl days with the Five Hot Shots from Mobile. The actors are uniformly admirable, and Estelle Parsons (Buck Barrow...
...Bury kinetic, a Yaacov Agam (her newest and proudest acquisition), and some superlative samples of pop and op.*In the library of the Javitses' Park Avenue place there also hangs a striking, feline oil of Marion by Boris Chaliapin. The mouth is sensual and slightly parted, the eyes tigerish and burning bright. But why, the startled subject asked on seeing the finished portrait, why on earth the golden arrow through her head? "Normally," came Chaliapin's cryptic reply, "when you shoot someone with an arrow, he bleeds. With you, the arrow only changes to gold...
Seriously Scratched. Few outsiders anticipated quite such a showing; just over a year ago, I.C.I, and Chairman Chambers were both in trouble. Intense competition had brought a worldwide drop in chemical prices. Britain and the Common Market could not make up their minds about each other. And, acting more tigerish than usual, I.C.I, had pawed hungrily at another company and been seriously scratched itself. To widen its synthetic fiber business. I.C.I, bought heavily into smaller Courtaulds. Ltd. and touched off the biggest proxy fight in British history (TIME, March 23. 1962). Able to secure only 38.5% of Courtaulds stock, I.C.I...
Verdi: Aïda (Leontyne Price, Rita Gorr, Jon Vickers, Robert Merrill, Giorgio Tozzi; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, Georg Solti conducting; RCA Victor, three LPs). Soprano Price's tigerish passion and luminous voice discover a moving Aïda-and cleave through the massed choral and orchestral sound unfalteringly...