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...night the fisherfolk watched and wondered, until at dawn, before all Connemara's eyes, the phantom city-a fleet of 30 Spanish trawlers riding out the storm in the lee of the Aran Islands-hauled up its anchors and sailed away...
...bailiffs were baffled again. Nobody was home. Every house was silent. The cattle had been turned out on the common where they could not be seized. The previous night, every Turner and Turboter had shoved off together to "visit relatives" in Aran, 25 miles away...
...keeping Soviet composers well-fed and commissioning them to write operas and symphnies. It even runs a "composers' country house" at Ivanovo, about 100 kilometers from Moscow, where all good Russian composers go in the summertime. One of Russia's top composers, Armenian-born Aran Khachaturian, calls it "an institution for the production of masterpieces and pigs." The estate has 66 cows, 8,000 chickens and ducks, 135 pigs, and room for 20 com posers. In the main building the composers eat, sleep, loaf and criticize each other's music. Nearby are five dachas, or cottages, where...
...Spider. His admirers say that Aranha (pronounced Aran-yah) has the eloquence of Aristide Briand, the romantic dash of D'Artagnan and the Pan-American idealism of the great Simón Bolivar. Actually Aranha is a onetime fire-breathing revolutionary who believes with cold logic that Brazil's self-interest now, as traditionally in the past, lies in close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes...
...names-until Trader Revillon talked Pathe into releasing it. A smash hit, Nanook was the end of Flaherty's career as an explorer. He went to the remote Samoan island of Savaii to produce Moana, to a rugged island off the coast of Ireland to make Man of Aran, to the native state of Mysore, India to film Elephant...