Word: bathing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trilogy, The Oresteia. Agamemnon has sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to win from the gods a favoring wind that will speed his fleet to Troy. Mad with grief and fury, his Queen, Clytemnestra, awaits the return of the victorious King from the Trojan War, and while he is in his bath she stabs him to death. Aided by his sister Electra, Agamemnon's son Orestes in turn murders both his mother and her lover Aegisthus. Pursued by the Furies, Orestes is tried before the goddess of Athens and acquitted at Apollo's intercession. But for the future, the goddess...
...TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath, who covered both the idyl and the ordeal, recently returned to Prague after an absence of two months, he found that the Russian presence was certainly the No. 1 reality in Czechoslovakia. Yet much of the country's mood, he found, remained resilient. For-bath's report...
...acre estate, where a photographer snapped her standing alongside Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, bundled against the chill in a shapeless and unbecoming brown beret, blue jacket and grey trousers. And one woman's page writer waspishly suggested that in future Jackie reserve such headgear for her bath. Back in New York, Jackie passed the word that she wanted to be left strictly alone: it was the fifth anniversary of Jack Kennedy's assassination and the week Robert Kennedy would have been 43. But whenever she put her head outside her Fifth Avenue apartment, there were the Jackie watchers...
Quivering Wings. In the fierce wind at Djémila, he finds the natural renewal that defies the despair leading to suicide: "The violent bath of sun and wind drained me of all strength. I scarcely felt the quivering of wings inside me, life's complaint, the wea' rebellion of the mind. Soon, scattered to the four corners of the earth, self-forgetful and self-forgotten, I am the wind and within it, the columns and the archway, the flagstones warm to the touch, the pale mountains around the deserted city. And never have I felt so deeply...
...their income from the show, will earn Rowan and Martin about $500,000 each this year. For Martin, the success is translated into the appurtenances of the swinging life-a hilltop pad, heated swimming pool, steam bath, a den filled with electronic gadgets and a black El Dorado and a yellow Corvette...