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...Xanadu, once upon a memory, Kubla Khan did a stately pleasure-dome decree. Some centuries later, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia set out to fill a comparable palace in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) with Europe's finest paintings and artifacts. The result is now called the State Hermitage Museum, and it has one of the world's best and most encyclopedic collections, though it is also cluttered with much second-rate stuff. The Soviets have been reluctant to lend their treasures. Two years ago, Art Collector Armand Hammer, who is also chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp...
...thousand years ago the Vietnamese drove out a better-equipped and trained invading Chinese army. The cost was high. But for three hundred years the Vietnamese enjoyed relatively secure boundaries. Three hundred years later the Vietnamese were forced to take up arms against an invading Mongolian army led by Kubla Khan. Again, the cost was high. But a united front of landowners, merchants, artisans, and peasants did not hesitate to shed blood--their own and that of the invading troops--in an effort to preserve Vietnam's territorial independence...
Every audience loves the ridiculous comic figure who stomps wordlessly across the stage at discreet intervals. In just that role Bob Guaraldi, as Alf the Red Retriever (remember Alph the sacred river in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"?), could not be more ridiculous or more lovable. His costume alone is enough to do the trick: he sports long red underwear, a large fur coat, a bright red nose and great, comfortable-looking boots, the better to clomp with. Each character flirts with everyone else, but Alf manages to be the most open about it, sitting down beside May Wish and howling...
...gleaming black slate lobby floor sloshed the contents of his bucket: a bouillabaisse of river muck and the carcasses of fish, a rat and a bird. The Fox, mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel of pollution, had struck again. His note explained all. A long doggerel rewrite of Coleridge's Kubla Khan, it ended with the lines: "We have begged you for mercy, and our hearts are sad, our brother./So I leave you with this greeting, Sir, from one slob to another! [signed] Fox." A grim fox's visage was drawn...
...adventure of exploring his own senses and extends his discoveries with the use of sex and drugs. As in his politics, he is searching for a shortcut to euphoria, to a mystical oneness with-not God perhaps, but something quite approximate. Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed his ecstatic poem Kubla Khan under the influence of opium. The rock romantics of the Dylan generation prefer...