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...Picture reminds us of the legendary stature Huston once attained. The story of the making of Huston's The Red Badge of Courage, it is a tragicomic chronicle of the director's attempt to make a film which was conceived in form and substance to cut against the traditional grain, at a time when convention-breaking was not fashionable; at a time when studio heads could still dictate how a film should be produced...
...growing concern about ecology, beauty products of purely natural ingredients are being marketed at an ever-increasing rate. Explains Los Angeles Cos metologist Gwen Seager Taylor: "Regular commercial products may not be harmful, but they are like eating white bread with preservatives added. Natural cosmetics, like whole-grain bread, give you back what nature gave you." Where as a year ago cucumber cleansing cream was obtainable only in a health-food store or an esoteric pharmacy, now there are scores of brands to choose from, all available in the natural-cosmetics shops that have sprung up across the country...
...tablets, which bore an early form of the Elamite language, and 84 blank tablets were found on the floor of one room. Large jars for grain storage and cylindrical seals to make impressions in wax were also found...
...said the tablets may be storage documents for grain...
HONOR TO THE BRIDE LIKE THE PIGEON THAT GUARDS ITS GRAIN UNDER THE CLOVE TREE by Jane Kramer. 211 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...