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...Vigo enshrouds the ship in myth. The fundamental mysteries of weather (deep, all enveloping fogs) and sex impinge on every moment. When Juliette deserts the ship, the captain, dives into the sea searching for a vision of her. The camera follows him underwater where he sees her in her bridal gown...
Most marriages are ratified at a glowing religious ceremony, complete with flowers, white bridal gown, and organ chords from Lohengrin; most divorces are carried out in the dry, drab ritual of a civil court.But unlike Catholics and Protestants, Orthodox Jews have their own formal religious ceremony to sunder a marriage.Performing this seldom seen rite is the job of Manhattan's Beth Din (meaning court of justice), which last week completed its first full year of operation as the nation's most unusual divorce tribunal...
...Bridal Rights. The Bar Kochba explorers-160 soldiers, students and kibbutz volunteers-had been led to the desert badlands just west of the Dead Sea by Archaeologist and former General Yigael Yadin. They found a treasure their first day at the diggings. In the same bat-infested, three-chambered Cave of Letters where he had discovered the rebel chieftain's papyri orders just a year ago. Archaeologist Yadin found some 60 more documents in a goatskin and a leather...
...sizzle of old shellac-his voice had the tenoresque freshness, vigor and ringing power that later carried him trii umphantly through 24 years at the Met and 223 Tristans. Among the album's treasures: a 1924 scene from Siegfried ("Nothung! Not hung! Schmiede mein Hammer"), and the Bridal Chamber Scene, from Lohengrin, recorded...
...buddy Ralph, Ralph's wife has just walked out on him. Ralph, if somewhat shrewder than most men, must yet in offering the newlyweds counsel, comically seek to do unto others what exists to be done for himself. It is rather uphill work, for the still uncoupled bridal couple have tempers as well as neuroses, and the two men themselves sometimes tangle en route. Then, in Act III, Ralph's wife comes back home again, and there is a good deal of crossfire, and there are a great many parleys and commotions in adjoining rooms, till...