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This monumental survey deserves to be published to the strains of the triumphal march from Aida. The Art of Ancient Egypt by Kazimierz Michalowski (Abrams; 600 pages; $125) embraces some 5,000 years and 30-odd dynasties. Cheops, Tutankhamen, eleven Ramseses, a dozen Ptolemys and Cleopatra enliven a history that contains the seeds of the Western imagination. Polish Professor Michalowski links chapters on anthropology, language, society and craft with more than 100 pages of diagrams and maps. Some 900 pictures, including 145 in color, illustrate masterpieces of sculpture and painting seldom seen in print. Here, scholarship and grandeur are inseparable...
When French Dance Student Isabelle Michalowski, 17, wants to find a local nightspot that is still open during the summer vacation, she lets her fingers do the walking-not through the Yellow Pages, but across the keyboard of a computer console. Using the small video terminal that has been provided by the state-owned French telephone company, she punches a few keys and then taps out the words DISCOS-RENNES. Seconds later the names, addresses and telephone numbers flash on the screen. She then hits another button and an illustrated advertisement appears on the screen. It reads...
DIED. Kazimierz Michalowski, 79, Polish archaeologist who headed an international team that dismantled, and then reconstructed on higher ground the magnificent Egyptian temples at Abu Simbel in order to save them from flooding caused by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s; of unannounced causes; in Warsaw. A leading Egyptologist for 50 years, Michalowski worked on the reconstruction of the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir-el-Bahari in 1961; he also unearthed the tomb of Thutmosis III in the Valley of the Kings...
Although Quincy dominated the play all afternoon at the Webster Field Snow Bowl, things looked a little tight when the invaders from New Haven tied the score at 6-6 late in the third quarter. The key play on that drive was a Mark Michalowski to Jack Stauffer 35-yard scoring strike...
Continuing the afternoon-long pattern of Q-miscues deep in the opposing zone, on the Q-manoids' next possession Michalowski picked off an errant pass at the goal line. Quincy got the ball right back on the Calhoun 28, thanks to a fumble...