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...stage, he inevitably gets a laugh every time he opens his quietly disdainful mouth. Whyatt is upstaged only by his Buttercupesque admirer, the Lady Jane, played with waspish hauteur by Dorothea Schmidt (she is particularly magnificent at the opening of the Second Act, when she is discovered in a glade singing a plaintive lay, and accompanying herself on a double bass). Her singing voice I can only describe as a magnificent and artfully manipulated foghorn...
Fedorov's account suggested that the cosmonaut landed inside his space capsule, but according to other sources in Russia, Major Gagarin parachuted out of the capsule before it hit the ground. Space Scientist Nikolai Gurovsky said: "The cosmonaut came down smoothly in a glade near a field. Landing on his feet, without even tumbling, he walked up to the people...
When he started on the nine-month filming project that took him from Belle Glade, Fla. to Chenango County, N.Y., Lowe found that "at first, the workers were embarrassed. Then one man spoke up: 'Are you with us or against us?' I said, 'I'm with you,' and they let us take their pictures." The pictures he got included that of an unbowed 29-year-old Negro woman, a migrant laborer since she was eight, now the mother of 14 children but still working for $1 per ten-hour day. She was one of several...
This startling first novel is a sinuous pagan rite. Faith is a sort of classic nymph, but instead of trees, rivers and mountains, she haunts galleries, fine restaurants and her tasteful London house. Jacques is an ageless satyr, but instead of tootling the pipes of Pan in some mythic glade, he rummages in London garbage cans and beds down on park benches. He is human dirt, but of a kind that makes the earth earthy. She is refined past the point of passion, yet curiously unawakened, nervously expectant. In the hands of a less urbane stylist, a sexual encounter between...
...takes wayfarers out of the way. Thus, he calls at a distance by beating a tattoo on his swollen abdomen. The noise, as I have heard it, is not unlike the muffled roar of the waterfall near by." Though painted in Japan, La Farge's deep purple glade reflects a typically American feeling for nature as something both seductive and fearful...