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...HEINRICH Etna...
...strict that lords could even dictate what color and what kind of clothing their serfs could wear. Craftsmen were restricted to certain specialized skills, such as carving, lacquering, throwing clay, screening silk. And during lifetimes of limited expression, they became surpassing experts at their narrow specialty. For example, etna, often painted reliefs of white horses, were Shinto offerings that recall live horses dedicated to the god spirit Kami, who rode a sacred horse while blessing his worshipers. Ema horses were bought for a song and were left in temples; but they were executed with such extraordinary craftsmanship that they...
...smaller arks has been moored just below a tributary of the Tiber; soon the gates will be open and the deluge will result. Sodom has been built out of charred plastic and spreads over 25 acres of Mount Etna. Katherine Dunham and her dancers were called in to provide the sin. Huston filmed Sodom dimly lit, and shied clear of the debauches of DeMille's epics. "There's no obscenity," says Huston, "but you will know unspeakable things are going...
...painter could ever claim a more fiery passion than Mexico's Gerardo Murillo. He loved volcanoes. He lived four months on the slopes of Mount Etna, spent six months inside Popoca tepetl's crater, and bought Paricutin volcano for $78 when it was a baby in 1943. He so mistreated his body that his teeth fell out from sulphur fumes and a leg was amputated because of bad circulation. He called himself "Dr. Atl" (Aztec for water), and signed that name to more than 11,000 drawings and 1,000 paintings, mostly volcanic landscapes...
Underneath Sicily lies forever a Cyclops, crushed beneath the land's great weight, through the -vengeance of the gods. His mouth is beneath Etna, and hurls forth flames of lava...