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...Western religions, with a healthy measure of Western-style hero-worship thrown in. The Cao Dai, whose temples were adorned with the Masonic eye, considered as major deities Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed. They harbored in their pantheon of lesser deities such people as Marcus Aurelius, Georges Clemenceau, Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo, and Thomas Jefferson. Winston Churchill was enshrined after 1945, but Charlie Chaplin was considered and dropped as a candidate for sainthood at about the same time...
...subtly indicated force, a sense of form working under confinement at several points above normal pressure. That Kelly is a most able draftsman can easily be seen from his pencil drawings of leaves and fruit - but in the abstract mode, he draws like a virtuoso. The decisiveness of the arc in Blue Curve, V, 1973, is (when seen in its large, actual size - it is about 6 ft. by 9 ft.) breathtaking; no other line, one senses, could have contained the buoyant, intrusive swell of the blue with such steely grace, or struck such a happy proportion with the white...
...combination of per verse sex and killing has also characterized many of the notorious mass murderers of history. Gilles de Rais, body guard to Joan of Arc, con fessed at his trial to slaugh tering hundreds of boys in the 15th century "solely for the pleasure and delectation of lust." Henri Landru, the French Bluebeard, specialized in ravishing and killing lonely women until the guillotine ended his career in 1922. A German schoolteacher named Wagner, who was obsessed with an act of sodomy that he said he committed when he was 27, killed his family of five, nine other people...
...This is a festival!" Nobody can sleep out here. I can't find my bag anymore anyway. I can't get into that bag anymore. For a while I was seein' stars (or was it arc lights?) and everything was real peaceful. Until this hopped up cokehead hopped on my head. This foot just gunches my jaw. I could a been into some sleep, but I just crossed over the line. Whoooeee! Parsons! Possuns! I want some coke! Course if somebody around here had some downers, some goofers, I could get down, but as long as I'm flyin...
...last couple of seasons, Levine's guest conducting with the Los Angeles and New York philharmonics and the Boston Symphony has instantly won the kind of acclaim-from critics, public and musicians alike-that most conductors take years to attain. His debut recording, the complete Joan of Arc by Verdi (Angel), starring Montserrat Caballé, Placido Domingo and Sherrill Milnes, confirms the skill and flair for Italian opera that Levine has shown in two years on the podium of the Metropolitan Opera...