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George Arvantis's cinematography has both sweep and intimacy, although there is too much use of the zoom lens--a noxious device--especially on Agamemnon, who is on the receiving end several times in the first few scenes. Mikis Theodorakis's music begins execrably, thudding around in the first half-hour like a discard from some horror movie, but it begins to wake up with the arrival in Aulis of Iphigenia, and in the final scene provides lively, uplifting support during her climb. This is music that suggests a quiet grandeur without a hint of soupiness...
...also to detect changes in their habitats, set up wildlife sanctuaries and even help airlines reroute their planes to avoid dangerous collisions with migrating birds. The bird count also acts as an environmental early-warning system. Recalling the canaries that miners took with them into coal mines to detect noxious fumes, Stahr explains that birds are usually quicker than man to react to changes about them. One example: the decline of many species-peregrine falcons, ospreys, brown pelicans-because of widespread use of insecticides...
Commercially, the city is fast regaining its old hustle. Rubble has been cleared from most streets; with it went a noxious haze that had shrouded the city. Cement mixers rather than armored vehicles, rumble through the streets. The port has been restored to 50% of prewar capacity and once again trucks rattle off the piers and up the winding mountain roads toward delivery points throughout the Persian Gulf. Beirut's airport, the busiest in the Arab world (400 weekly flights) before it was shut down by artillery fire, has reopened and handles about 75% of its old traffic volume...
...would have been just as correct to attribute the causes of malaria and yellow fever to "noxious jungle vapors and immoral living" as to "bacteria-carrying mosquitoes." In fact, malaria is caused by protozoa-carrying mosquitoes, and yellow fever by virus-carrying mosquitoes...
...ominous spirit of the mysterious East is not entirely dead. It surfaces in the pain and hallucinations of breakbone fever, in a Malay medicine man who is accused of turning into a weretiger to commit murder, and in a chilling description of the noxious Midnight Horror tree: "The flowers are pollinated by bats which are attracted by the smell and, holding to the fleshy corolla with the claws on their wings, thrust their noses into its throat; scratches, as of bats, can be seen on the fallen leaves the next morning...