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...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The campy style of this revue rarely dims the conucopian delight of Cole Porter's lesser-known but invariably worldlywise, witty, and tuneful songs. Kaye Ballard, a supreme clown clowning supremely, heads an irrepressible and attractive cast of five...
Maybe that's why there can be no guide to New York. No, not even by the CRIMSON. The City is too manifold, too mercurial. Its famous attractions are too familiar, its lesser-known places and preoccupations too sprawling and too involuted for anything less than a digital computer to set down the whole patchwork, in all its brilliance and multiplicity. New York is unlickable...
...cleanses." The poets have now repaid the compliment. Not since Lincoln's assassination has an American's death inspired so much poetry, the best of which has been collected in this volume. Established poets-W. H. Auden, Richard Eberhart, John Berryman, among others-lent their usual talent; lesser-known poets rose to more than usual eloquence; and all expressed an admiration for J.F.K. that undoubtedly would have shocked him: Robert Hazel ("President I love as my grandfather loved Lincoln"); Ruth Yorck ("We may stop worrying./ Our best man died./ We know...
...Irish-born Dr. Robert James Marshall explained it last week to the American Heart Association in Atlantic City, the steal involves one of the arteries that normally help to supply blood to the brain. Besides the well-publicized carotid arteries, there are two lesser-known vertebral arteries, each of which branches off from one of the subclavian arteries in the shoulders and ascends to the brain (see diagram). These arteries unite at the base of the brain to form the basilar artery, and in a healthy person they supply up to 20% of the brain's blood. Normally...
...Metropolitan Museum, one of the world's top art detectives who, armed with infrared film and chemical analysis, waged war against forgeries, in 1945 proved that Andrea Mantegna's signature on the museum's Meditation on the Passion had been painted over that of a lesser-known Renaissance master, Vittore Carpaccio (the museum did not mind: it had three Mantegnas but no Carpaccios, which are almost as valuable); of a heart attack; in Southold...