Hints and tips:
...One of those rusty, ancient-looking trash cans so synonymous with New York sidewalks appears to have turned itself into a giant vase....
...There is Peter Brook’s magnificently scarred Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris — the daddy, I suggest....
...With her Louise Brooks bob, the Door is part vamp, part chorus girl; part scary-sexy and part mechanical. To the squeak of a dollhouse door’s rusty hinges, she rolls a suggestive shoulder....
...Silphiums are much tidier and longer-lasting than rusty hollyhocks, tied on their big canes. I had found a keynote and round it, an entire composition has developed....
...They came from 20 nations on penny-farthings, rusty tandems, district-nurse sit-up-and-beggers and all manner of golden-age racing machines....
...In places it resembles the faded Parisian decadence of Peter Brook’s resonantly faded music hall Bouffes du Nord; in the Roman rooms the patched-up reds of the walls and the damaged frescoes evoke Pompeii...
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