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Painting in Gems. The Wittelsbach treasure represents some of the finest works of a moribund art in which precious stones, rather than paint, provided color, and malleable gold and silver, rather than marble, was shaped to the sculptor's concept of form. The Schatzkammer's most ostentatious piece, an equestrian statue of the knight St. George, has 2,291 diamonds, 406 rubies and 209 pearls-and an artistic value transcending them all. Almost unnoticed beneath its bright blanket of jewels, the horse's opal eye flashes balefully from a smooth, stylized head of chalcedony. The swoop...
...with little fanfare. "Too much publicity," explains Director Hans Thoma, "might only attract some fool Rififi who might take a crack at the wealth. The public should come gradually, not because they are intrigued by the glitter, but because of the artistic pleasure it gives to see so much precious beauty assembled...
Sunset Supper. The ants never let the caterpillars out of their care. During the day they keep the caterpillars in individual burrows a few inches long, and plug the entrances with pellets of earth. A few ants always stay inside to guard each precious caterpillar cow. The burrows are always close to the caterpillars' favorite food plant, a low white-flowered bush, but they may be as far as 50 ft. from the ant colony...
...drama loses pace only when the kidnaper's identity is learned. Instead of arresting the criminal, police follow him around interminably, wasting precious time in expressions of teahouse sympathy for Mr. Gondo, who has become a national hero and nearly gone bankrupt after getting the boot from National Shoes. But Kurosawa generates fresh energy as hunter and hunted make their way through the Yokohama underworld, and he finds flesh-and-blood truth in a final confrontation between Gondo and his enemy. The two men stare. Antithesis embodied, they are high and low-the man from the great glass house...
...century. The master race of apes did not evolve faster than men, but superseded them when men became slothful, numbed by a feeling that life is meaningless. The meaning of Boulle's cheerful parable is not a mocking warning but an observation: human dignity is both precarious and precious; too often it is based on pride in achievements that can be matched by clever mimics of what has been done before. Like the Red Queen, Western man has to keep running if he is to keep his place as the lord of creation...