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...many a drafty northern castle was adorned with the glowing carpets for which Isfahan was renowned. Shah Abbus and The of Isfahan, at the Fogg until February 24, recreates the magic of the fabled Persian city with a rich and varied collection of beautiful objects from tomb covers to archer's rings...
...throne. His earliest drawings are delicate, strongly traditional, and faintly wistful, obviously the work of a young prodigy. Later, toward the end of Shah Abbas's reign, his touch coarsens and he no longer draws graceful, languid young men. Instead, he caricatures raunchy, dope-smoking soldiers like Nashmi the Archer--an archetype of social decay. Riza's protege, Mu'in Musavvir, did original work in the traditional Persian style throughout his long life, in the face of many of his contemporaries's adoption of a European manner. Muhammad Zaman, for example, based his Return from the Flight Into Egypt...
...crazy, disorganized hillside ceremony in which the entire town of Buddy, Calif., comes to cheer its boy Vic off to the nationals. Vic sees it all as a shuck, refuses to go and hits the road out of town, pursued by his new fiancee Drenna Valentine (Anne Archer), who talks very sincerely in movie-magazine captions: "And the dumb part is I really do understand and don't really expect you to jump on any white horse and carry...
...sister-in-law, who seems to dwell in the middle of some lunatic serenity; Art Metrano as Vic's anxious brother-in-law Jay David Swooze ("Just a formal handshake will be just fine for me, thanks"); E.J. Peaker as the imperious Janelle; and Anne Archer as the fetching but deadening Drenna-all these are especially noteworthy out of a large and shrewdly chosen cast. Each nicely complements the excellences of a distinctive, gifted movie...
Another problem was that the whole thing seemed too preposterous a plan to be taken seriously. And it was never decided whether the important figures of finance knew what was being proposed on their behalf. The American Liberty League was finally disbanded in 1936. But Author Archer believes the plot was in earnest - and so did John McCormack, who once told Archer: "They were going to make it all sound constitutional, of course, with a high-sounding name for the dictator and a plan to make it all sound like a good American program...