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...Horrid, the Domestic. Many of the drawings are rooted in time through subject and costume. But some are amazingly modern, such as the watercolor of a gate near a 17th century Roman villa that is so filled with blinding light that its details are seen as in an overexposed photograph. It is rustic yet somehow eerie, the perfect expression of Artist Salvator Rosa, who confessed himself in search of an "extravagant mixture of the horrid and of the domestic, of the plain and of the precipice," which artists centuries later are still seeking...
...income." But sometimes she finds it all a dreadful bore: living in a museum, knocking about in county tweeds, keeping the upper lip stiff as she rakes a fresh batch of manure into those horrid little mushrooms in the cellar...
...Indonesia, refused to man tugs or docking lines. The Doorman cranked up her aircraft and maneuvered to her berth by using the propeller blasts to nudge alongside the dock. At Hollandia, New Guinea, the Doorman unloaded twelve obsolescent Hawker Hunter turbojets to bolster the small Dutch defense forces. Crying "Horrid imperialists," Indonesia's President Sukarno broke off diplomatic relations with The Netherlands...
This jolly-sounding novel, which draws its title from Robert Browning's account of the last days of the Venetian Republic, might more properly be called FitzGibbon's Decline and Fall of the British Empire. With horrid persuasiveness, it looks forward to the moment, somewhere between 1960 and 1984, when Britain decides "to commit suicide" and becomes a Soviet satellite. Lest any reader think he is not reading about the possible, FitzGibbon provides a text from Lenin, who held that in war, it is best to wait "until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the mortal blow...
Pollyanna. Showing an infallible instinct for what the public wants but would be better off without, Walt Disney has blended freshets of onion juice and a Niagara of drivel into a movie tearfully true to the Eleanor Porter novel. Hayley Mills is excellently horrid in the lead...