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Currently it is the nation's top-grossing film, having run up $62 million in receipts in six weeks. Wheeling as usual, Begelman set up a distribution deal for Robert Mitchum's new film, The Amsterdam Kill, and signed Robert Redford to star in Electric Horseman...
...this range of art works dating from around the 16th century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D. proves. For Thrace was the land whence came Orpheus, mythical musician-king who enchanted the most ferocious beasts and defied Pluto, the king of the underworld; it was the country where the Horseman--a god combining aspects of Apollo, Dionysos and Asclepius--was at once the object of popular veneration and emulation. People and culture were sufficiently influenced by neighboring Greece, Persia, Western Europe and even Scythia to create a rich variety of artifacts, and yet the Thracians and their creations have always...
...buxom goddesses, while others may be drawn to metal worked laurel wreaths used to honor the dead. And especially interesting is a silvered-iron mask of a man's face with rough cast-iron "hair" made in the first century A.D. More spontaneous in spirit is the bronze "Horseman" cavorting, only three inches high yet painstakingly, masterfully fashioned. Ostentation, heroism, eroticism and plain whimsy--all are here. Collections of such variety are rare indeed. Veritable treasures...
...much sulfur dioxide into the air that it is literally melting the Parthenon's marble. In the past ten years, according to Greece's Minister of Culture, Constantine Trypanis, the carved details on the five caryatids of the Erechtheum have seriously degenerated, while the face of the horseman on the Parthenon's west side is all but obliterated. In addition to the pollution damage, frosts and water seepage have cracked some of the stones. Others have been split by a disastrously ignorant restoration of the Parthenon's columns from 1913 to 1931, when iron bars were...
...A.I.P. to its greatest electoral success, garnering an impressive 9.9 million votes-nearly 14% of the total cast. But Wallace dropped out of the 1972 race after his near-fatal wounding in Laurel, Md., and was not involved with the organization this year. Ronald Reagan, a leading horseman of the right, was reluctant to leave the Republican Party after his convention defeat to ride in the A.I.P. presidential saddle...