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HADRIAN VII is a dramatization of Frederick William Rolfe's novel, Hadrian the Seventh. Playwright Peter Luke makes Rolfe the hero of his own story; he is an eccentric misfit who, after being rejected twice for the priesthood, develops the fantasy that he becomes Pope. In a stunning performance...
Barrientos not only plops down godlike on Indian villages that have never seen a President; he is also one of the few blancos, or white Bolivians, fluent in the Quechua Indian language. He is robust enough to dance all night with pretty girls, hearty enough to eat as many as...
The techniques used on prisoners by the Communists today have become painfully familiar, even though the beatings, threats and psychological pressures given Bucher and his crew were so horrifying as to stun the world anew last week. To some extent, the techniques consist of old-fashioned torture protracted and refined...
Wills' conservative heroes must meet high intellectual standards-St. Augustine, Cardinal Newman, John Ruskin and, his greatest hero of all, Samuel Johnson. "There's practically no such thing as a real tradition of conservatism in America," he says. "The right and the left today are just splintered forms...
Manet's The Artist, though painted only eight years before his death, is a provocative contrast to the broadly stroked, flatly patterned pictures that any gallerygoer can identify across the room as a Manet. Marcellin Desboutin was a witty, talented engraver, and one of Manet's close friends...