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...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...
...national library. But a problem remained: how to integrate this masterpiece of obsolete military building with the tourist life of the city below? The answer was to turn it into an exhibition center. The fortress's ancient terraces, overlooking Florence to the north and the tranquil, cypress-dotted hills behind San Miniato to the south, were potentially a superb site for the open-air installation of large-scale sculpture-provided that a sculptor could be found whose work could confront, and survive, the austere monumentality of the building itself. To Florence's civic leaders, there was only...
...Cypress, Calif...
...tawny good looks and shapely legs (she is 5 ft. 6 in., one inch shorter than George) carried her to the semifinals of a Miss Alabama contest before she became the star of the Cypress Gardens water ski show in Florida -and married John Snively III, a millionaire whose family at one time owned the Gardens. After seven years of marriage and two sons, Jim and Josh, the Snivelys were divorced...
...Give You None," from Blowing' Your Mind, was his most powerful effort of the evening: Scat singing over his choir, improvising, creating tension, and finally letting the band blow. It was the only time all night his band--tight, disciplined and nameless--could display its talent. He also sang "Cypress Avenue," and revealed his own essential contradiction. There is a showman within Van Morrison, and the tension between that showman and an apparent detachment creates his stage presence. His band gave him a soul-style introduction, thirty seconds of sustained chording, and on he came--to sing "I've Been...