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...between the 18th and the 20th centuries; his shrieks and murmurs carry across the Victorian era (which merely stopped its ears) to the present. In several paintings and drawings all called The Nightmare-whose principal characters are variously a monstrous dwarf, a leering horse and a recumbent maiden-Fuseli seems as modern as Dali or Freud. Despite his inescapable similarity to his great friend ("Blake," he once said, "is damned good to steal from"), Fuseli speaks to the U.S. audience in his own peculiar and terrifying...
BOEING'S jet transport, first in the U.S.. will be unveiled next month. The $20 million, 120-passenger, four-engine plane will get its engines and instruments installed by June, make its maiden flight some time in August...
...betweens. Unaware of all this, Alia went off to England, then to Paris for a holiday. Quite by chance, Sultan appeared in Paris, too, and inquired around about his bride-to-be. What he heard alarmed him. He hired detectives, who reported that Alia was indeed no strict Moslem maiden but was gadding about the Left Bank with a young crowd, behaving herself like a thoroughly emancipated, Western-style 22-year...
With a plot that requires virtually the entire population of Bagdad, including Omar Khayyam, Kismet casts Actor Drake as a resourceful poet who is, at different times, not only rich man, poor man, beggar man and thief, but also magician, prisoner, emir, and father of a beauteous maiden (Doretta Morrow) who wins the love of the caliph. Seldom has the path of true love run with so many detours, or so many halts to let caravans go by. Nor is the score notably helpful. Some eerie things have happened to Russian Composer Borodin's brilliantly eerie music, and though...
...lndy: Istar (Westminster Symphony of London conducted by Anatole Fistoulari; M-G-M). A symphonic striptease, this romantic score tells the story of a Babylonian maiden's visit to the house of death. As she passes each of its! successive gates, she is stripped of a piece of clothing until she stands naked at the" seventh. Suitably enough, the musical variations are stated in reverse, starting with the most complicated; at the end, the naked theme is heard for the first time...