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...left a thick oil slick in its wake. Hundreds of rare manuscripts and books were destroyed in the slime. The water knocked out five panels of Ghiberti's "Doors of Paradise," the famed bronze reliefs on the doors of the Baptistery near the Duomo. It wrecked the priceless 13th century crucifix by Cimabue in the Museum of Santa Croce. In the basements and other galleries of the Uffizi, 1,200 paintings were spattered with mud and grease...
...shot in a 13th century fortress perched on a precipitous knap that rises out of Holy Island, a dot in the North Sea off the coast of Northumberland. There all alone lives a rather odd couple: a flabby old fool (Donald Pleasence) who dismally fails to satisfy the snippy little chippy (Françoise Dorléac) he has recently wed. She lusts for excitement, and suddenly she gets it. A mobster on the lam (Lionel Slander) staggers into the castle one fine day and institutes a nerve-shredding reign of terror: flashes his firearms, slashes the phone wires, crashes...
...quite accurate to say that the St. Louis Cardinals look bad on paper. They look awful. They rank 13th out of the 15 teams in the National Football League in total offense, 13th in passing, and 15th in punting. They do not have a man among the league's top ten pass receivers, and they have only one among the top ten rushers: $300,000 Bonus Rookie Johnny Roland, who is No. 9. Their quarterback, Charley Johnson, stands No. 7 among N.F.L. passers, and, against the Chicago Bears last week, he completed four out of 16 tosses...
During the 13th century, King Alfonso the Wise produced the first illustrated history of Spain. The rare book showed that just as art may serve as magic, nature's mirror or man's mirth, it is also a priceless visual testament to the past. Seeing history in art fascinates Photographer Bradley Smith, who spent two years in Spain taking pictures of more than 235 art works, from the 20,000 B.C. cave paintings of Altamira to the present-day works of Miró and Picasso...
...script is a riddle. Why eliminate practically all of the exciting events described by the 13th century Venetian in the chronicle of his travels in Cathay, and introduce instead 100 minutes of substandard horse operatics that resemble polo more than Polo? What's more, the cutting looks as though it had been done by a Mongolian headsman; the dubbing is so wildly out of sync that occasionally a word spoken by one actor seems to come out of another actor's mouth; and the color print looks like a fresco restored with the assistance of Clorox...