Word: lanterns
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...waiting to see. Their city, as always, boils with activity night and day, restless and surcharged. In the evenings, families line the 1,500-ft. Howrah Bridge for a cooling touch of breeze from the distant sea, or stroll the green acres of Maidan Park. Holy men chant by lantern light as the devout perform their religious ablutions in the muddy water of the Hooghly. The bazaars are choked with wandering fiddlers, fortunetellers, cloth merchants, naked children, sidewalk barbers; every third man has fountain pens for sale. In their thousands, the always-hungry poor lie down on their hard beds...
...pool and cabanas; a lush lawn dotted with royal palms, hibiscus and ixora slopes down to the bay. New Orleans-style grillwork flanks the entrance. Low and relatively compact, the two-story white stucco house is built around a patio. Downstairs is a foyer lit with a mammoth bronze lantern, a drawing room paved with black and white Spanish tiles, a spacious living room with bleached mahogany walls stained silver-grey, a bar and a Formica-walled kitchen with built-in rotisserie. Upstairs are another living room and eight bedrooms-including a 900-sq.-ft. master bedroom with twin dressing...
Visitors to the chateau of Cirey came away so dumfounded that they could scarcely summon the strength to repeat everything they had seen and heard. One of them, arriving in broad daylight. claimed that he was led by a servant carrying a lantern through a succession of cavernous, shuttered rooms until a door opened into a brilliant drawing room lit by 20 candles. Here sat Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet, surrounded by scientific instruments and glittering "with diamonds like an operatic Venus." Above, "weaving spells" at the head of a secret staircase, sat "the Magician" who was Emilie's lover...
...central idea. The analytical score is played as a series of interludes after each movement; in the case of the Mozart Quartet, the original piece takes about 30 minutes, the interludes 17 minutes. Their effect is like looking at a painting, then watching a series of lantern slides of different portions of the painting, stripped of minor embellishments and arranged to stress the picture's harmonies and tensions...
...views of Thai boxers, golden Burmese temples and the stone splendor of Cambodia's Angkor Wat. But in trying to do too much-a travelogue plus a report of things social, economic, political, religious, anthropological-it did almost nothing well. Instead, it frequently suggested a melange of scrambled lantern slides. James (Tales of the South Pacific) Michener's commentary, delivered in a tired drawl, was repetitive, primer-simple, and studded with long gaps in which the viewer was left without pertinent information about the picture, or even a clue as to its locale. The film was more than...