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...Korean peninsula at its waist. The DMZ is a strange place today, bristling with gun emplacements and barbed wire, studded with land mines, one of which blew the legs off a South Korean army officer four days after our visit. Yet a deceptive air of tranquillity pervades its locust thickets, and in the near absence of humanity, wildlife flourishes. White cranes re-enact scenes from an ancient Chinese painting as they stalk long-legged in the flooded paddy fields, still being cultivated (under U.S. Army protection) by their South Korean owners. Over the years, the DMZ has become a tourist...
...incorrigible fabulist, and his autobiography, The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, is stuffed with lies, inventions and embroideries. Did he really, as he claimed, have to be restrained from throwing himself out of a window on seeing a locust in the room? Did he actually sit in the bar of the Ritz in Madrid and make cocktails out of his own blood? Did he truly associate animal glue, death and dung with sex? And how to square the youthful Dali--whom his fellow students at the Madrid Academy remembered as "bashful," "morbidly shy" and "literally sick with timidity"--with...
...Manhattan, but the position offers a chance to bring arts to young people and learn about professional musical productions. And Locust Valley is a short hop away from the city...
Contact: John Chicherio, Director of Operations, Friends of the Arts, P.O. Box 702, Locust Valley...
...disturbing pattern of capitalism and of the American Century, in which ruthlessness, selfishness, corporate raiding and Darwinian business practices were rewarded. Sadly, if this trend continues, we may find ourselves at a loss for the true visionaries who make the progress of civilization possible. EROL GULAY, AGE 15 Locust Valley...