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...hard to look at a Max Ernst without feeling a pact between his secret language and one's own fantasies. The carnivorous or petrified landscapes, the enchanted pencil forests, the enigmatic rooms in which sinister things happen-these constitute a world on the other side of the mirror, access to which depends on an involuntary conspiracy with the artist...
Perhaps biography will never come to the end of T.E. Lawrence. He was one of those rare and many-selved creatures whose talents for action and introspection were almost balanced, and he has become a mirror to cast back the face of each inspector. Six decades have passed since his efforts to "restore to the East some self-respect, a goal, ideals" raised an Arab army against the occupying Turks in Syria, waged glamorously mobile guerrilla war in the midst of the clumsy formal movements of World War I, changed the history of the Middle East, and were sold...
...star of Mahogany, appeared on the stage of the New Victoria Theater with a 30-piece orchestra, three dancers and a back-up singing group. "She looked lovely, moved beautifully, but sang with only a two-dimensional plastic perfection," carped the Guardian. Said the critic from the Daily Mirror: "The lady has no depth." Maybe not, but audiences bought up every ticket for the singer's three-day London engagement, and six more concerts have been added at the completion of her 19-city European tour. Even in the plastic version, soul sells...
...tabloid Mirror flayed the Times for "prejudiced and intemperate political judgment." Author Auberon Waugh wrote to the Times: "Your decision to suppress those aspects of the news which displease you strike me as differing only in its effectiveness from the Russian model...
...joined the waiting line. No one is really sure whey they're here--the men's room is a short five feet away--but no one pays any attention. Music is piped in from the main room and some have started dancing to it, watching themselves in the wall mirror; pouting, panting, grinding, one woman stares in a hypnotized daze at the reflection of her own breasts. People balk before turning on the water--the tilting phallic shaped faucets make washing one's hands a curiously obscene...