Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obviously topless but discreetly shaded in the mist, a modern Lady Godiva clad only in blue jeans rides a stallion beside the roiling sea. A bare-chested man jumps on the horse with her and together they ride off, silhouetted in the sunset. Though all three TV networks rejected this...
There is method in Ludwig's mellowness. The Jari project is approaching the crucial second stage of development. The present pulp mill is planned eventually to turn out 750 metric tons daily, making it moderately large by world standards. If the project is to be fully successful, Ludwig needs...
If Diaghilev was a charlatan, Richard Buckle shows in this exhaustive new biography that he was also a historical necessity. Almost alone, he bridged the old and new centuries. He was at home in the twilight romanticism of the 1890s. But he was also one of the first to recognize...
Buckle, formerly the dance critic of the Sunday Times of London, might have speculated more about the period and the art and placed Diaghilev's achievement in perspective. But if analysis is missing, the man transcends his interpreter. For Diaghilev's life was his work, and that has...
It was partly the spectacle of Western decadence that aroused the Ayatullah Khomeini to orgies of Koranic proscription. Alcohol, music, dancing, mixed bathing all have been curtailed by the Iranian revolution. Americans find this zealotry sinister, but also quaint: How can almost childish pleasures (a tune on the radio, a...