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...Pope Paul Vl's "hobby"-as his entourage was calling his collection of contemporary art-was unveiled in 55 rooms of the Vatican Museum, the refurbished Borgia Apartment near the Sistine Chapel. Much of the show consisted of Italian paintings and massive sculptures by Giacomo Manzu and Emilio Greco. But there were also two rooms full of American paintings, one devoted entirely to works by Ben Shahn...
...seem to view with unveiled skepticism. Many Americans regard a cultural evening as a therapeutic penance roughly comparable to a dose of cod-liver oil. All such gentry will be dazzled, enlightened and elated by Nicol Williamson's Late Show. Williamson looks like a kind of carbonated El Greco. He has a taut elongated body and funereal brows-yet an effervescent mirth, irony, mischief and intelligence emanate from every tone and gesture of this remarkable actor. In a limited engagement, after each evening's Broadway performance in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, he unwinds in poetry and song...
...chasuble used in liturgical celebration developed out of everyday Greco-Roman clothing; an enveloping cloak (Latin name: casula, or little house), worn over the tunic, was adopted by the church some time after the 4th century A.D. Made of wool at first, the chasuble-with the increasing availability of silk around the 10th and 11th centuries-gradually acquired a dazzling sumptuousness. The epitome of this was opus Anglicanum, or "English work," a taxingly intricate method of embroidery that flourished in London guild shops during the 13th and 14th centuries. The Met possesses one rare example, the so-called Chichester-Constable...
...Dedicated 23-year-old Dan Gable, who has won 265 of 267 matches in an eleven-year career, is an obvious gold-medal threat in the lightweight division; Wayne Wells, who finished fourth as a lightweight at Mexico, is now a welterweight and better. Among other U.S. hopes (in Greco-Roman as well as freestyle wrestling) is 444-lb. Chris Taylor, who very nearly gave up the sport after an incident that took place two years ago. "I pancaked this fellow, and I heard him screaming underneath me," he recalls. "I thought his back was broken...
...four-acre set cost $500,000 -more than some entire movies in today's budget-squeezed Hollywood. Next to the plaster mountains are two 40-ft. waterfalls, four glistening pools, and an 80-ft.-high Greco-Roman-Byzantine-Gothic-Sung-Khmer Lamasery that owes more to Hilton the hotelier than Hilton the novelist. "It's like having a dream you can walk into any time you want to," gushes one of the Columbia Pictures secretaries who spend their lunch hours or coffee breaks on the set trying to catch glimpses of a cast that includes Charles Boyer, John...