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...into a floating Elysium. Capable of 22 knots, mounting an amphibian Piaggio aircraft plus a landing craft, the yacht boasts a black-sweatered crew of 50 ("More than it needs to run a 40,000-ton tanker," says Onassis), two chefs, 42 extension phones, a bathtub that glitters with mosaic dolphins and flying fish and was copied from King Minos' palace at Knossos, and a swimming pool big enough to hold a Kennedy sloop...
FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNAL, by Eugene Ionesco. A leading playwright of the theater of the absurd displays his troubled spirit in a masochistic mosaic...
FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNAL, by Eugene Ionesco. A leading playwright of the theater of the absurd movingly displays his troubled spirit in a masochistic mosaic...
...many small human truths that Director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) presents to delight and surprise the eye. A phalanx of nannies march through Hyde Park as though each tree and blade of grass belonged to them. The faces of children playing a game evoke the whole mysterious mosaic of human diversity. The interior decoration of an old thief's brand-new flat hits just the right level of department-store-modern respectability...
...from Vienne was acquired for the badly needed school, Archaeologists Serge Tourrenc and Marcel Le Glay quietly began to probe beneath a peach orchard, suspecting that it covered ancient ruins of Roman Vienne. Three feet beneath the surface, on their first try, they found a colorful Roman mosaic. They alerted Malraux, then, with his support, proceeded to excavate five acres of the orchard with almost unseemly haste, hoping to prove the historical value of the site before the townspeople of Vienne could realize that their new school was in danger...