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...each night to their little hut. After absorbing these whoppers, the audience is prepared for one more anticlimax: Taylor tracks the fleeing Granger and Debra to a hillside cave, but instead of shooting them down, obligingly camps outside all night. By morning he is frozen stiff as an ice cube-even though the weather is apparently so mild that it does not raise a single goose bump on Debra's bare and dimpled knees as she rides off into the dawn in Granger's arms...
...humorous Ivy Oration, Frederick M. Kimball '55 of St. Louis mused that "the dignity of man and the grandeur of his bathroom are intimately connected." This dignity was estimated as being equal "to the cube root of his toilet habits." He said that "the Renaissance began when Leonarde DaVinci reinvented the bathroom. For the first time in a thousand years, people began taking their clothes off, end art began again...
...humorous Ivy Oration, Frederick M. Kimball '55 of St. Louis mused that "the dignity of man and the grandeur of his bathroom are intimately connected." The dignity was estimated as being equal "to the cube root of his toilet habits." He said that "the Renaissance began when Leonarde DaVinci reinvented the bathroom. For the first time in a thousand years, people began taking their clothes off, and art began again...
Dali originally entitled the work Corpus hipercubus (Hypercubic Body), explains that his painting is based on "the harmonious division of a specific golden rectangle" and on the studies of the cube by the 16th century Spanish Architect Juan de Herrera. Actually, the painting has all the impact of a good window display. A luminous figure of a beardless Christ, face averted, floats before a dull gold cross, dramatically spotlighted against a dark sky. Floating with fine structural irrelevancy before the figure are four of Dali's small, mystic cubes, "the most perfect of geometric bodies." Dali has painted...
...duties of the Moslem on a had (pilgrimage) is to walk seven times around the Kaaba, the great black cube in Mecca that is the center of Islam and the symbol of God's oneness. Pilgrim Asad "walked on and on, the minutes passed, all that had been small and bitter in my heart began to leave my heart. I became part of a circular stream-oh, was this the meaning of what we were doing: to become aware that one is part of a movement in an orbit? Was this, perhaps, all confusion...