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...interlocking triangles, spirals, and checker-boards. After the restoration of images in 842, wall painting became iconographic. Later churches are resplendent with brightly colored (the colors being derived from herbs, roots, and the like) frescoes of Byzantine heroes: St. George lancing the dragon, St. Christopher, and the Byzantine Emperor Constantine and his Empress, Helena...
...process never ends. Again and again in her or his life the child must learn first to see and then to admire the Emperor's elegant new clothes. (Only the "insane" fail...
...Pogrund also takes great pride in the stature and reputation for integrity that The Rand Daily Mail enjoys throughout the world. The American National Press or "Emperor" award for 1966 went to The Mail, South Africa's most widely read morning publication, and the paper still carries the award emblem above the masthead each day. The same front page, however, carries a box every day with the name of the Editor, Raymond Lauw; of each editorial writer for that day and of the newsman who wrote all the day's headlines...
...Hubert Mallin-daine. He is stubbornly settled in one of Maggie's three houses at Nemi, south east of Rome, where votaries once worshiped at the temple of Diana. Hubert claims squatter's rights on the rather shaky grounds of his alleged descent from Diana and the Emperor Caligula...
...Caligula has had all the success of an open-air orgy in Antarctica. First, Writer Gore Vidal quarreled with Director Tinto Brass and was barred from the movie's sets in Rome. Next to exit was Actress Maria Schneider, who called the film biography of the Roman emperor "a grotesque pornographic movie," and walked out after a day's shooting. "For an enormous amount of money they're asking people to prostitute themselves. I was ready and willing to act, but not to take my clothes off and do whatever they wanted me to," she complained. Enter...