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Centaurs, parakeets, a curly tailed unicorn resting on a carpet of flowers while pomegranate juices drip on its milky hide; heraldic crests, peasants reaping, Hector girding himself in 15th century steel, slim ladies picnicking in the everlasting green glow of a medieval Arcadia-the great exhibition of 14th to 16th century tapestries, jointly organized by the National Museums of France and New York's Metropolitan, is an exquisite arbor of diversion. Shown last October at the Grand Palais in Paris, it opened in Manhattan last week. It is undoubtedly the most important exhibition of its kind ever mounted...
...Reston's dove-self won out, although he maintained an unshakable dislike of communism. Nixon's promises to end the war did not restore Reston's lost faith in America's Vietnam policy. When Nixon carpet-bombed North Vietnam at Christmas 1972, Reston wrote, "This is war by tantrum" (column, Dec. 26, 1972). In a news analysis written the day after the cease-fire agreement on Jan. 23, 1973, Reston again lamented the loss of America's innocence. "The guess here is that it will take some time to restore the self-confidence of the pre-Vietnam years...
...Mashour took the cue to solicit bids from salvage firms in France, Italy, Holland, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Mashour is close to signing a contract, probably with a Dutch-West German-Yugoslav consortium. The first job of the clearers will be to rid the banks of their lethal carpet of mines, and that step alone should take a month. Then divers will go into the water to pinpoint the positions and depths of wrecks. Silt, once thought to be a major barrier to reopening, will be no problem at all; very little of it has built up during the long...
...body and it flips like a wounded crocodile's tail; she drools green gook when she is not squirting vomit (pea soup) into the faces of the psychiatrists and priests who come to treat her. Before the guests at her mother's dinner party she urinates on the carpet; she smashes a psychiatrist in the groin; strapped to her bed she makes drawers open and windows crash and the furniture move in murderous assault upon her mother; she rotates her head full circle. And best of all, she masturbates with a crucifix, jabbing it into her bloodied vagina with great...
...these words, and it was inevitable that parody would flourish to a point where Buchwald could talk of a dumb movie about the Parisian housing shortage and two apartment-hunters who find a rundown flat and spend a lot of time rolling around trying to measure it for a carpet. But it's not typical for anyone to skip joyously unaffected out of the theater after this one--it's more like being at the mercy of an I.V. in reverse. Brando's performance is an extraordinarily personal statement, and the obscurity of Bertolucci's ideas is less important than...