Word: gabriels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chileans could expect a shower of sparks for the next six years. If Congress approved charming, explosive Gabriel Gonzalez Videla's 50,000-vote plurality (not a majority) in last week's elections, Chile would be getting its liveliest president in many a political moon...
Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, a mosaic-walled mosque in a corner of the Old City, is Islam's third holiest shrine. From the Rock, Mohamed, led by the Angel Gabriel, ascended on el-Buraq, his eagle-winged mare with the human face, to visit the seven heavens of Islam. (Mohamed's footprint, judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling...
Caesar and Cleopatra (J. Arthur Rank-United Artists) cost the British $3 to $5 million (by pressagent accounting), and will be peddled in the U.S. as a spectacle. As spectacle, this Gabriel Pascal production does itself proud-from stupendous Technicolor replicas of Ptolemaic Egypt down to intimate studies of the young Queen's décolletage. But all the munificent movie art does not conceal art of a rarer, riper kind: the dialogue for this superspectacle was written by a great master of prose and of wit, George Bernard Shaw. By & large, the playing is worthy of the dialogue...
...present: Admirals Jean de Laborde (ill in a hospital) and Gabriel Auphan (inexplicably still at large), scheduled to be tried at the same time for their part in the scuttling of the fleet at Toulon...
...listening to the radio: ". . . Of all the things I enjoy not doing, not listening to the radio is my favorite. . . . Some programs are more fun not to listen to than others. For your non-listening pleasure I recommend Stella Dallas, Portia Faces Life and my old friend, Gabriel Heatter...