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...Chahine established his early rep in the '50s, when Egypt rivaled India as the Hollywood of the Arabic-speaking world, and stars like Omar Sharif and Faten Hamama set moviegoers' heart aglow in Islamic countries from Morocco to Indonesia. In 1954 Chahine cast Hamama, who had been in movies since girlhood, and the 22-year-old Sharif, a recent college graduate making his first film, in Siraa Fil-Wadi / The Blazing Sky / Sky of Hell. This Romeo-and-Juliet drama set on sugarcane plantations was Egypt's entry at the Cannes Film Festival, and a pan-Arabic smash. It established...
...modern, he thought, is to be artificially aglow...
...extra bonus,” Cross said. “We went into worlds still aglow from our NCAA victory. It’s refreshing to see Harvard play well on not only a national level but an international level, since most top fencers go to scholarship schools...
...years after Californians booted Gray Davis for being politically spineless--not to mention dull--the oft-ridiculed ex-Governor is suddenly aglow with vindication. Amid the plummeting popularity ratings of his successor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, both a legal settlement and a documentary this summer attribute the state's energy crisis four years ago less to Davis' dithering and more to Enron's market manipulation...
...dissension breaking up the Bauhaus, the influential German Arts and Crafts school, where he had been a professor and artist-in-residence. The Basel show opens with a prologue from those brighter days, including the miraculous gem Ad Marginem, reminiscent of a medieval miniature, with a fiery red sphere aglow on a pale green ground, surrounded by feathery plants and fairy-tale creatures that seem to grow out from all four sides of the frame. Steamboat and Sailboats, Toward Evening and the abstract Polyphony are exercises in Klee's dreamlike version of pointillism, with light and shadow played...