Word: aegean
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Elegant examples of both past and present Aegean treasures were on display at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week. But only fleetingly. One treasure, Actress Melina Mercouri, 57 (Never on Sunday), had to return home after paying a social call on "The Search for Alexander," the traveling collection of 180 works of art from the time of Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.). The artifacts will follow her home when the show ends its seven-city, three-year tour next July. But Mercouri, Greece's Minister of Culture, has not had much luck getting...
...power of a high school thespian. Quennessen is indescribably alluring. But she but she gets stuck with so many cliched French free-spirit lines, that even she becomes tiresome. P>Summer Lovers made persuade few wealthy College kids to pass R. Lauderdale next spring for a week on this Aegean, but as car as fun for this summer, this is not where...
Salt routes crisscrossed the globe. One of the most traveled led from Morocco south across the Sahara to Timbuktu. Ships bearing salt from Egypt to Greece traversed the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Herodotus describes a caravan route that united the salt oases of the Libyan desert. Venice's glittering wealth was attributable not so much to exotic spices as to commonplace salt, which Venetians exchanged in Constantinople for the spices of Asia. In 1295, when he first returned from Cathay, Marco Polo delighted the Doge with tales of the prodigious value of salt coins bearing the seal...
...show at the Sonnabend Gallery. An East German emigre to the West, he does mock-archaeological images blown up to "American" size. On a flat ground, flat pictographs: Ariadne holding her thread, Theseus as a stick figure with spear, a Minotaur. This primitivism is meant to suggest a heroic Aegean prehistory, a lost age when sibyls muttered in every cleft, and any scratch or spiral meant something. But Penck's images are mere quotation suffused with graphic charm; they are little more than the husks of myth, the ornamental posing as the archetypal. Of course, one could say much...
...substance the U.S. and NATO accepted it. The second blow came in 1974 when Turkish troops armed by NATO and the U.S., using arms in violation of American law, invaded Cyprus. The third blow, and one still very much alive, is Turkey's claim on the Aegean while the U.S. modernizes Turkey's arsenal...