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...like Roman emperors. But their gentle, dreamy expressions and gestures are not a bit Roman. They seem powerless and wise, but not with earthly knowledge. Giuliano seems to be "held upright by the magic of the Madonna at whom he is looking." The Virgin, with the Child at her breast, sits at the center of the chapel's end wall. She is the focal point around which Michelangelo's half-classical and half-Christian little universe is clustered...
...swimming gets most attention from the U.S. at the Olympics. With Japan on the sidelines (Japan and Germany were not invited), the U.S. has the pool almost to itself-except for France's Alex Jany in the 100-& 400-meter freestyle. The best U.S. bet: husky Breast-Stroker Joe Verdeur, who has been breaking his own world records...
...Davis gives a clean, dramatic report of a Cuban revolutionist's gallant death before a firing squad (1897) and leaves him "asleep in the wet grass, with his motionless arms still tightly bound behind him, with the scapular twisted awry across his face, and the blood from his breast sinking into the soil he had tried to free." Winifred Black, the original sob sister, sets the pattern for countless future sob sister leads with "I begged, cajoled and cried my way through the line of soldiers" to get into Galveston after the flood (1900). Then she compresses the harrowing...
Fabian. In Lima, Peru, spry, 100-year-old Juana Rosa Arnaiz explained her secret of longevity: "I never hurry, am late for everything. I was breast-fed until eight years...
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty...