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...German katze, in French chat, in Spanish and Portuguese gato, in Italian gatto, in Russian kot, and in Gaelic cat. Such striking linguistic similarities, which occur profusely throughout the Babel of the world, defy coincidence. They suggest that someone who knows one language need never walk blindfold through the labyrinth of a related tongue...
Beneath Naples lies a labyrinth of tunnels that mostly end in the port area. They were built centuries ago by nobles and monks who wanted a safe and secret exit in dangerous times. Some 1,000 "tunnel guides" today make their living leading thieves to the right spot at the right time. In 1962, a British freighter en route from Leghorn to West Africa with a cargo of textiles, rugs and Olivetti typewriters sank in a storm off Naples. Insurance company divers said the water was too deep for salvage. The company ordered new divers from West Germany and, meanwhile...
...Western correspondents in Moscow, getting the news has always involved threading a labyrinth of uncooperative and inaccessible officialdom. Did the recent change in the Soviet high command make things any better? Last week, after spending seven days in Moscow talking to 18 "officials and editors," the New York Times's Associate Editor "Scotty" Reston cabled a two-column "news analysis" with the pregnant, telltale observation: "The people who have power are not available for discussion, and the people who are available have no power...
...legitimate ancestry. Cezanne, Seurat and Monet seized upon newly proposed theories of optics when they painted. In this century, such constructivists as Mondrian and Malevich were the forebears of op art's dry, highly controlled use of color, which sometimes-as in the work of Britain's labyrinth-making Jeffrey Steele, 33 (above) -amounts to rejecting color. When they do use color, however, it is to stimulate the first sense directly rather than to enhance forms...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th. Frank Lloyd Wright's curvilinear museum makes a fitting setting for the "endlessness" of Architect-Sculptor Frederick Kiesler, who turns a room into a work of art, links painted and sculpted units to form a labyrinth of surprises. In the main gallery is the 120-work Van Gogh collection lent by the painter's nephew. Both exhibitions through June...