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Like a ghost out of his own past, the frail Russian prince sat in a darkened Manhattan courtroom and watched a TV re-enactment of one of history's most famous assassinations-the 1916 murder of Rasputin, the lecherous monk who held Svengalian power over the Czar and Czarina. Then the lights went on, and Prince Felix Youssoupoff, the man who did the deed, now a 78-year-old Parisian, got down to business-his $1,500,000 suit against the Columbia Broadcasting System for invasion of privacy...
...Gasping and roaring like a wounded animal," Rasputin still had enough energy to try to choke the prince. Like an actor in the TV play he disapproved of, the old man dramatically clutched his own throat in demonstration. After that, the dying monk staggered into the courtyard, where he showed remarkable stamina by surviving four more bullets before the prince beat him to death with a club and the plotters tossed the corpse into the ice-filled Neva River...
Drawn about 1440, probably by a monk in a Swiss scriptorium, the map's startling features are a strikingly accurate delineation of Greenland in the upper left-hand corner and a representation of "Vinland" (the name Vikings from Iceland and Greenland in the 10th century gave a portion of the coast of North America). There, crudely drawn but unmistakable, are Hudson Bay and the Gulf of St. Lawrence...
...Oooh," squealed the girl behind me, "Is that Daria up there? She looks just like a monk!" Daria was onstage looking like a monk because she was dressed like a monk, and about fifty other girls surrounded her dressed like monks and witches and jesters and knights, and some were even dressed like girls. Down in the pit there were more girls, playing piano, flute and trumpet. Off in a corner, hiding behind a bass and a drum set, were the two lone boys in the production, vastly outnumbered and probably terrified. The Wellesley Junior Show, a combination...
...SOLO MONK (Columbia). Pianist Thelonious Monk offers greater range and variety-from the simple lyric line to complex, sophisticated jazz-than any other musician playing today. I Should Care is dismembered and recomposed almost chillingly; North of Sunset comes out as old-fashioned blues. He even makes Ruby, My Dear, a song he has played for more than 30 years, sound fresh...