Word: belshazzar
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...Thomas Cole grandly evokes the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden; old sobersides Albrecht Dürer brings a light-hearted touch to, of all things, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and John Martin, a 19th century Englishman with a 20th Century-Fox mind, offers a Cinemascopic Belshazzar's Feast that obviously showed Hollywood the epic handwriting on the wall...
...Griffith had both a view and a vision. In Birth of a Nation (1915) he restaged his father's Civil War, complete with dramatic scenes of the Ku Klux Klan that brought charges of racism along with blockbuster success. In Intolerance (1916) he took on, among other things, Belshazzar's feast, with elephants, dancing girls and collapsing Babylonian towers...
...contemporary rhythms; of a heart attack; at his home on the island of Ischia, Italy. At 21, Walton scandalized London with his first important work, Fagade, irreverent musical parodies written to accompany poems by his patron Edith Sitwell. He later turned to more conventional forms, such as the oratorio Belshazzar's Feast and his romantic concertos for violin, viola and cello. A slow, painstaking composer who once complained, "A lot of the time music irritates me to madness, especially my own," he nonetheless wrote up to the end; a few days before his death he completed the score...
...from booth to trading station, clutching slips of paper. Clerks in blue and tan cotton jackets flit about trying to keep up with orders. Messengers dart in and out of the trading area, while overhead, in symbols seemingly as cryptic as the writing that appeared on the walls of Belshazzar's palace, projectors display the quotations off the stock tapes...
...fall, the energy crisis burst upon the U.S. with the emotional impact of a modern-day handwriting on the wall. After a long Belshazzar's feast of energy gluttony, it seemed, Americans were being called to a bitter reckoning. The winter loomed as a grim season of cold bedrooms and chilly classrooms, of painful shortages of oil-related products ranging from phonograph records to penicillin, of cramped inability to travel, of shuttered factories and high unemployment. And that supposedly would be only the start of a new lifestyle of thrift, sharing and self-denial -spiritually cathartic, perhaps, but hardly...