Word: ets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Afterward, the guests trooped into the chill desert night and sat wrapped in blankets at the foot of the ruins to watch fireworks and a son et lumière display of Persian history. After an hour the Shah, noticing some royal yawns and glazed eyes, mercifully rose from his chair and almost everybody took the welcome exit cue. The guests trooped back to their tents and had a whole morning to sleep before getting up for lunch, a parade and another dinner with the regal couple before flying home...
...chance at the show "because I loved the record." On LP, Jesus Christ Superstar is abstract, intimate, capable of subtly engaging the mind and the imagination. Director O'Horgan's frenetic Broadway incarnation is rarely any of those things. It is, instead, a frequently breathless and occasionally stupendous son et lumière show, crowded with mechanical contrivances, and a headlong rush of happenings that, as designer Robin Wagner puts it, "overlap like arrows in flight...
Even the title is pure Greene: low-key, self-deprecating, perfectly descriptive. Indeed, readers hoping for massive disclosures about the author's marriage, love life, experience of miracles, abortive World War II spy career, trip to a leper colony, et al., had best go back again to the novels. This brief autobiographical fragment ends in 1931. Greene was 27 years old at the time, and about to face a decade of relative failure following his early hit with a book called The Man Within. As he writes somewhat archly in the preface, more or less explaining why he stops...
...point of collision. At the same time, another spectacular event may well have occurred. The gases contained in the comet nucleus-particularly frozen ammonia and methane-would have spread through the atmosphere and the water, drastically changing the environment for primitive life. Then, in a swirling finale of son et lumière, atmospheric lightning would have ignited the mixtures of methane and air, filling the primordial skies with vast, spreading explosions...
...Francisco's Millard Fillmore Institute were delighted to confer on any applicant a variety of "honorary and meretricious" titles ranging from "Doctor of Generosity" to "Doctor of Pinochle Sciences." All he needed was $10. A Latin motto made the point clear: Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute novi' (Loose translation: "You may think you're hot stuff, but we know you, buster...