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...belated boom in thatched roofs? "It's the London people who are coming out here," says Dodson, "buying their weekend cottages and fixing them up." Explains Designer-Photographer Sir Cecil Beaton, who is so enamored of thatch that he even thatches his garden walls: "I champion beauty and impracticability...
...years ago, God sent a strong wind to divide the waters of the Red Sea so they could escape Pharaoh's army. The Israelites marched on dry ground between two walls of water. Or did they? So it says in Exodus 14, and so it is depicted in Cecil B. De Mille's film The Ten Commandments. But most biblical scholars nowadays believe that the Exodus story, like such other Old Testament accounts as Jonah and the "great fish" and Adam and Eve, are not strictly historical but were embroidered much later by Jewish editors...
Nigel Davenport is a steady Bothwell to Miss Redgrave, and Trevor Howard, as William Cecil, is always fun to watch, even though not at his best. The rest of the cast appear to have been plucked from the back room of Madame Tussaud...
...Kuchera's success has been duplicated elsewhere. Several physicians have used DES to prevent pregnancies in rape victims, and Dr. Takey Crist and Cecil Farrington of the University of North Carolina reported last week that they had used an animal estrogen successfully with 94 patients. But neither Dr. Kuchera nor her colleagues see DES as a panacea for unwanted pregnancies. The drug has been linked to cancer of the vagina in the daughters of women who took it for other purposes (TIME, Aug. 2). The Food and Drug Administration has not approved it for general use as a pregnancy...
Sometimes O'Horgan, like Cecil B. DeMille, overwhelms through extravagance. The most dramatic example (see cover) is Jesus rising from the stage floor on a hidden elevator; a $20,000 robe cascades in gleaming folds beneath him, after covering layers have been stripped off, suggesting the radiant emergence of a butterfly from a chrysalis. O'Horgan's aim is mainly to shock the sensibilities; often, alas, that is all he manages...