Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WALKING THE STREETS on a rainy Sunday night in October, everyone but you is taking care of business, old overcoats collars-turned-up, fedora brims turned-down-against-the-weather because only the rich junkies can score out of the rain stand beneath a blue neon sign that says Police Station #4, in a parka, soaking up the wet like a DuPont Cellulose sponge. Inside, the good guys are drinking coffee and munching doughnuts as you call a taxi...
...Beneath the feathered hats and the enormous glasses Elton is known for, apart from the foot-high platform shoes and the carpeted pianos, there has always lurked a moody, but very good singer, songwriter and piano player. Success spoiled him. Somehow the piano player got lost among the glamorous and empty accoutrements of international success...
...quarters, which could provide new information about ancient Egyptian religious practices. Their hope, of course, is that even more dramatic artifacts lie waiting to be unearthed. A small rise overlooking the temple is dotted with large stone heads of sphinxes, and team members believe that monumental statues lie just beneath them, waiting to be revealed by further excavation next year. "We know from 19th century maps of the site that there are large walls with stone gateways buried beneath the mound," says Richard Fazzini, curator of Egyptian art at the Brooklyn Museum and field director...
...sophisticated stage performer bewildered only by the demands of the camera, of the English language and of the director. Russell, who might have used Valentino's short, unhappy life as a device for social and dramatic purposes ends by distorting the man and the epoch. What emerges beneath the dazzling exteriors is a subtext of Russell's idiosyncratic personal peeves. His movie is perhaps understandably anti-journalist and anti-mogul, since both have lately been unkind to Russell. But the representatives of these groups are seen to be so preposterously venal, so unredeemably evil, that one half expects...
...Peking remained a "Forbidden City." The pleasures of the hidden quarters, lying in wait for the foreign touch, only suggested the more refined, if more hidden, pleasures of the Imperial count. With their triumph over the native Boxer rebels in 1900, Westerners penetrated the political decadence of Peking. But beneath its new mask of subservience to the West, the reality of the old court, filled with power-hungry eunuchs, stocked with useless riches, was preserved...