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LOEB DRAMA CENTER: More from the First Boston International Film Festival. At 5 p.m., the German film, The Blazing Sand, with Raphel Nussbaum. At 7, Mexico's Macario, starring Roberto Galvadon. And at 9:30, the Grecian This Side of the River, featuring Nikos Koundouros. On Saturday, the Festival offers (by invitation only) the esteemed British film. The Angry Silence, with Guy Green and Richard Attenborough. This at 5:30 p.m. Later, at 7 (no invitation needed) the Pakistani movie. The Day Shall Dawn, starring Aaejay Kardar. And, at 9:30. Robert Bresson's The Pickpocket. Tickets at the Festival...
...charter yachts, or smaller, 30-ft. caïques that sleep two or three (for $40 a day), travelers can move on southeast to the Cyclades: Santorin, with its unearthly landscape; Paros, from which the masters quarried their famous marble; and Mykonos, which has lately become a kind of Grecian Capri. For 50?, travelers can make the round-trip caïque ride to nearby Delos, Apollo's birthplace, which the Greek government maintains as an uncommercialized museum. There, in an eerie, glaring white silence, are the remarkable ruins of houses, theaters and temples-a ghost town from which...
...14th century battlements, and the lush rhododendron and bazaars are worth savoring for a day or two (the Hotel Miramare is on a good beach, has private bungalows, charges $10 for a single room). Sailing up the chain, travelers experience even more the feel of how the Grecian islands are creatures of the sea, bound by myth and religion, commerce, a mystical aloneness: Kos, where Hippocrates was born; Patmos, where the monastery exhibits the St. Mark Gospel written in silver on 33 leaves of purple vellum (and where the hard-scrabbling islanders, says a visitor, "live on packages from relatives...
...nevertheless must rank as well as one of the ten best foreign films of 1960. Despite an excruciating musical score, a didactic plot, and some rather pointless satire about American do-gooder schnooks, the movie must be admired for its brilliant photography and obvious zestful enjoyment of Grecian peasant life--and, of course, its week-night diversions. Evenings...
That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing. Several more will open soon. Their burgeoning popularity may be a result of the closing of the 52nd Street burlesque joints, but curiously enough their atmosphere is almost always familial-neighborhood saloons with a bit of epidermis...