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When the countess posed for Goya the second time, she was only 21, and the artist never treated a subject with more tenderness. As usual, he did not care about background-the person was his concern-and he painted her sitting in darkness, yet glowing with light, her pale hands...
The better sort of television has long been the province of Robert Herridge, 42, once called by Variety "the literary conscience of the medium." Using no sets but considerable imagination, he originated WCBS's Camera Three seven years ago, did productions of Hamlet, Moby Dick, The Heart of Darkness...
Toward midnight, a senior Japanese bureaucrat cautiously ventured out into Tokyo's sheltering darkness carrying a chrysanthemum-embossed copy of the revised U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty. He inspected the streets for signs of left-wing demonstrators with all the wariness of an oldtime plainsman watching for hostile Sioux, then...
Down from the waist they are Centaurs, Though women all above. But to the girdle do the gods inherit, Beneath is all the fiends'. There's Hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, Burning, scalding, stench, consumption, fie, fie, fie! Pah, pah! Give me...
Novelist Styron's first book, Lie Down in Darkness, was a Fall-of-the-House-of-Usher story about a decaying Southern family, and its lyric, doom-haunted evocation of the Southern landscape made the author the bright hope of U.S. fiction among some critics, as well as the...