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...that, the treasures retain the grandeur of mystery too. A wooden head of Tutankhamun, shown as the sun-god emerging from a lotus plant in daily rebirth, stares outward with a gaze that is as candid, guileless-and impenetrably secretive-as a cat's. Nearly every one of the 55 artworks seems a confident invocation of the idea of permanence. "To speak the names of the dead is to make them live again," said the ancient Egyptians. This superb show eloquently illustrates that point...
Sylvan Scene. The plot is wafer-thin. It centers on the idea (a recurring one in Shakespeare) of nobles renouncing the splendor, gaiety and fleshly corruption of the court for a quasi-religious retreat amid the guileless innocence of the countryside. The King of Navarre (David Suchet) proposes to his three attendant lords, Longaville (Robert Ashby), Dumaine (Michael Ensign) and Berowne (Ian Richardson), that they form "a little academe." They pledge to meditate, study, fast, and forswear women. This pledge is scarcely uttered when four devilishly distracting ladies appear on the sylvan scene...
Exactly what single cause or combination of causes-health, boredom, disappointment, anxiety-led Mills to disregard recklessly his reputation and career remains a mystery. Fanne herself, while perhaps garrulous to a fault (see box), has not provided much illumitiation. Largely guileless, enormously flattered by Mills' attentions, she is scarcely the stereotype of a designing woman. Indeed, she may not really comprehend the role she has played in the destruction of the man whom she still calls "Mr. Mills." What is certain is that what began as delicious Washington gossip has become a personal and professional tragedy in which...
...just goes on and on, getting more bellicosely bombastic as he goes along. It still sounds stirring, as an old man's last call to battle should, but it sounds more than a little ludicrous, too. It's like a parody out of some '30s pacifist tract, some embarrassingly guileless Johnny Got His Gun. But Ives was entirely serious, and he stayed that...
Given this general trend, a politician ambitious for higher office had to do something more than present a fresh and guileless face. He had to find a way to make a distinctive impression, as happened with spectacular results in New York State, where the voters defied the party bosses...