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...York Times article about his play Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty with the headline "An Anti-U.S. Play Is a Hit in Moscow," he saw red. Pointing out that he had toured the U.S. and admired its young people, Apollo 16, jazz and the Grand Canyon, Yevtushenko told the Times: "Neither I nor the director could ever produce an anti-American production, since genuine art cannot be anti-people." New York magazine added a footnote, gleefully noting that Yevtushenko had lunched with the editors and that "the enemy of capitalism had enlivened the affair by attempting...
...hour's drive north of Damascus into the russet foothills of the Anti-Lebanon range, the road curves past an elegant stand of cypress trees. Suddenly the village cascades into view. The flat-roofed houses of mud and stone climb up the walls of a dead-end canyon of brown rock. Nestled in a crevice is the dome of a small convent, and high above, on the crest of the ravine, looms the Byzantine cupola of a monastery that, according to its lone priest, is 1,700 years old. Below is a patchwork of tiny fields where villagers grow...
Still another legend has it that a woman named Takla, a follower of St. Paul, was driven into the desert by her pagan father in A.D. 45. Fleeing soldiers intent on raping her, Takla ran into the cul-de-sac of Maloula's canyon. Trapped, she raised her hands in desperate prayer to the Holy Virgin. Miraculously the mountains parted, creating a narrow passage at the top of the valley that permitted her to escape. Villagers still dip their hands in a fountain at the Convent of St. Takla, built into the rock face, in belief that the water...
...dispatched his mother Helena to the Holy Land to search for the true cross. He also ordered the lighting of fiery beacons from Jerusalem to Constantinople to flash the joyous news if she should find it. Two of these were placed on either side of Maloula's narrow canyon. In modern times, one beacon has been tended on feast days by Melchites, the other by Greek Orthodox. Today the feast is marked by the "throwing of fire"-in the form of flaming logs and foul-smelling burning auto tires-from niches in the cliff. "There is music and dancing...
GIVE AMERICAN film makers a drop of truth, and they'll try to expand it into oceans. A decade ago, the West was little more than a prairie or canyon-pitted vista through which beleaguered Wasp heroes played out moral fantasies. Justice was simple, a matter of everyone sticking to the place they could carve for themselves on the land, and ethics were administered with guns...