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Suddenly it came. "Da sheontee kono meki no sienti holay coriente no sheonte mees . . ." said one of the women in a cool, musical voice. She continued for about a minute to utter these sounds, meaningless in any known language. No one glanced up or spoke. After a minute or two of silence, she "interpreted" what she had said: "The Lord thy God says unto thee that he is here in the midst of thee . . . When you pray, fear not. He is with you always, and his love surrounds you like a fleecy cloud. Thus saith the Lord." This was greeted...
...sounded for a few raucous moments as if Mickey Mantle had popped up with the bases loaded. While the performer stood transfixed, boos, catcalls and whistles filled the warm night air. Occasion: an open-air performance of Aïda at Verona, during which Soprano Antonietta Stella committed the unpardonable sin of muffing a high C in the difficult third-act aria O patria...
...Culture André Malraux, as well as adviser on Malraux's art books, Fautrier overcame his representational tendencies 30 years ago, is "freed from the limits of design" when he paints. Virtually indistinguishable from one another, Fautrier's paintings bear such titles as Bare Breasts, Landscape, Wa Da Da...
...angels, stands in the geographic center of the city; sightseers and lovers go by elevator to the roof to admire the view of the wide Lombard plain and the snowy crest of Mont Blanc. The grim battlements of Sforzesco Castle still brood over their grassy moat, and Leonardo da Vinci's faded master piece, The Last Supper, is slowly peeling on the wall of the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The curious tourist will have a difficult time finding a notorious wartime monument: the gasoline station where the battered bodies of Benito Mussolini and his brunette mistress, Claretta...
Eminent Domain. In Pesqueira, Brazil, Landlord Joao Francisco da Silva was locked up for nonpayment of property taxes on the city jailhouse, which he owns...