Word: corsicas
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...artist spent several months in Corsica, but seemed to have found no more sunlight than he used to filter on to his dark canvases at home. Another, surrounded by the lush scenery of CuraÇcao, painted the same intricate abstractions that she did before she went away. A third went to Spain, and seemed to have seen the same landscapes he had known between The Hague and the Hook of Holland...
Arriving in Manhattan to begin her "final" visit and lecture tour, onetime Opera Star Mary Garden announced that after the exhausting ordeal was over she would head for a summer rest in Corsica, "because it's the one place where you can live with nature. You can bathe any way you want, and no one pays any attention...
Playing with dogged intensity in a variety of foreign accents, the actors seem at times about to burst into arias, an impression the score compounds with passages from Tosca and Bohème. The accent of heavily costumed Actress Domergue wavers between Corsica and California; yet, possibly because the setting is suitable, her overwrought style seems more fitting than it did in Where Danger Lives (TIME...
...Parma. Britain's Somerset de Chair, onetime M.P. and officer in the Royal Horse Guards, has edited and organized the Napoleonic hodgepodge. Pruned of its grossest irrelevancies and chronologically reassembled, the Memoirs now sweep the reader in a hedgehopping rush from Author Napoleon's small start in Corsica to his triumph at Marengo (1800), then make a 15-year leap to his return from Elba and his downfall at Waterloo. Still lacking (because Napoleon never lived to write them) are accounts of his imperial heyday, his victories at Jena and Austerlitz, the disastrous Russian campaign...
...record of what the blitzes did to the city, will be published in England next month. Sansom looks like an Oxford oarsman and lives in a decayed house in northwest London where he is now working "only when I feel like it" on a book of short stories about Corsica...