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The vault of the great eastern apse is now dominated by the "monumental" mosaic of the 14th century which shows the "Mother of God and the Child" looking down with compassion upon the worshippers below. The Archangel Gabriel, attributed to the ninth century mosaic painter Lazarus, flanks this scene.
This concentration-camp novel by an expatriate Rumanian has outsold (175,000 copies) every other book of fiction published in France since the war. Already translated into 14 languages, its total sales are close to the million mork. Hundreds of reviews and articles, mostly respectful, have been written about the...
Imminence of Death. Brave Company is the story of a New Zealand infantry outfit on the Italian mountain front. Mostly it is about a single platoon, and it concentrates on a single squad. It is written by a New Zealand schoolteacher who fought in the infantry for three years, was...
To one who knows Korea, it comes as no surprise that South Korean police are as savagely inhuman as their bloodbrothers fighting in the ranks of the North Korean army. Many of them undoubtedly were tutored in Japanese police methods before the liberation in 1945 . . . And let us be frank...
But Difficult Years offers a masterly Chaplinesque performance by Actor Spadaro, as the pathetic, sometimes ludicrous hero. And Director Zampa tells his quiet, straightforward story with compassion, humor, biting irony and a firm grasp of character. It is a story full of meaning for a world still under totalitarian clouds...