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...Rubens' child-wife Hélène Fourment, it is one of the obsessive human presences of 17th century painting: Philip IV of Spain, growing older in the long succession of Diego Velásquez's court portraits. This one was painted late in the monarch's life, around 1653. The King's features-the bulbed Habsburg lip, the forehead's waxy promontory, the thick ball of a chin, the upswept mustache that Salvador Dali would appropriate and vulgarize-must have been more familiar to Velásquez than the map of Spain itself...
...have much to show for their declared independence. They suffered from what Taylor describes as "a distinct lack of money." But lately Queen's fortunes have been rising fast. Under the guidance of Manager John Reid, 26, who also handles Elton John, Queen has become the monarch of British rock. A few weeks ago, Bohemian Rhapsody, a six-minute cut that mingles introspection with Gilbert and Sullivan operatics, hit the top of the British music charts. Queen's fourth LP, A Night At The Opera (Elektra), has passed the million-seller mark worldwide. Last week the group began...
...least one Harvard final club has an important file in its club library, faithfully maintained by the club librarian for generations. In the file listed under departments such as "History" and "English," are old term papers for student use. Nearby stacks of Cliffe's and Monarch Notes are stacked up, along with condensed versions of popular plays, etc-the kind with comments in the margins. Unfortunately, says a source within the club, the file has been neglected in the past few years. "Most of the papers are pretty shitty, and most of them are from the 1930's anyway. There...
...bilious tract written in 1604 by King James I of Great Britain has made that widely unadmired monarch a belated hero to certain Americans in 1976. The royal broadside, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, was a lengthy denunciation of smoking, culminating in the sentence...
BUTTERFLIES by Thomas C. Emmel. 244 pages. Knopf. $29.95. Some of these rare Lepidoptera are so luminescent they produce optical shock. Even the commoner varieties blend the lyrical with the clinical, intriguing both scientist and layman. Accompanying facts are as remarkable as the closeup images. The ubiquitous orange monarch, for example, is the only true round-trip migrant among the world's 20,000 species. Although only one family of butterflies is called satyrs, most males exhibit an aggressive libido as soon as they emerge from the chrysalis-they can detect females by odor, flight signals, and ultraviolet waves...