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...tired of complaining to officials about being stopped here, and since my visitor seemed to understand some English, I asked about Nineveh - the ruins of the great Assyrian city, site of the world's first library, which lay a few miles down the road. I wondered whether it too was under fire from U.S. air power or Iraqi artillery - and I also wondered whether anybody cared...
Hart, from his studio in Nineveh, N.Y., says he would hate for people to think he's "a whacked-out religious-zealous fanatic"; he would also hate "for people to say I have an open mind," when Jesus is the way and the truth. The Post paraphrased him, saying that Jews and Muslims who don't accept Jesus will go to hell, that homosexuality is Satan's handiwork and that the world may end by the year 2010. The assertions are "really harshly stated," winces Hart, but he stands by them (except the bit about the Jews...
...everywhere. When God commanded the prophet Jonah to go to Nineveh and order the city to repent, Jonah found the prospect so daunting that he tried to run away. God found him and sent him back. (Nineveh repented.) After KAL 007, one suspects that today even He would hesitate before dispatching Jonah on a similar mission to Moscow. -By Charles Krauthammer
...Barzini observes, "nobody wears black unless he has to, and the empire has gone the ways of Nineveh and Tyre, its domination of the world is over, the awesome fleet and the tentacular intelligence service are but memories, and the sagacity of its statesmen almost (but not entirely) vanished." Nevertheless, says Barzini, the Britons realize their limitations. Helas, the French do not. They insist upon being treated as Europe's grandest military, economic, cultural and gustatory power. In fact, he notes, "foreigners have to remind themselves they are not dealing with a country that really exists, a country many...
...most poignant scene of the sexual abnormalcy is not in the Red Light District, where degenerates sing: "Whatever you dream of alone in bed. Come to us and we will make it real instead." Nor is it the scene in the Nineveh Hotel (remember Jonah's destination), where the dancing girls offer. "We lift our legs for your masculine inspection. You can admire us without correction..." The best scene does not take place until Alan Norman loses the innocent manner with which he has made his quest and makes love to the beautiful Miss Vipond, played by a shopwindow dummy...