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Miles portrays Lady Caroline like a seasick naiad. She is married to that steadfast politician William Lamb (Jon Finch), who is later to become Lord Melbourne, no thanks to her. Caroline conducts a mad love affair with Lord Byron (Richard Chamberlain), submitting eagerly to such ignominious charades as playing Nubian slave to his surly prince. She thereby offers herself as a willing victim to the Romantic Agony, not to mention the subsequent shame, strife and scandal...
...many of them on the verge of extinction. To collect them, Yoffe undergoes almost biblical trials. Arab governments routinely refuse, for political reasons, to sanction the shipment of animals to Israel. Yoffe once got round this problem by paying Bedouin hunters in the Judean hills to catch him 15 Nubian ibexes, one by one. But he still yearns for a pair of wild Arabian oryxes (a kind of antelope), which can now be found mainly on the Arabian peninsula. His chief recourse is to turn to zoos that have the species he wants, and that quickly consumes the funds...
Today she is thinking-or says she is thinking-of things other than films. She writes verse in a loose, prosy style -"You be a Nubian, you be a sheep chained to death's tow rope," begins one of her poems-and she plans to write a screenplay. She even talks about writing a novel, which if it follows her own life would read like a collaboration between Louisa May Alcott and Harold Robbins...
Darkened Zeal. Executed between the 6th and 12th centuries, the frescoes reveal an impressive command of technique-particularly for a place so remote. The style of the Nubian monks who painted them seems to have evolved from the naive manner of Egypt's Copts into more severe stylization. An unidentified deacon with basilisk eyes and a mandarin mustache shows the ability of the Nobatian artist to transform a standard Coptic portrait with a sparsity of line more Byzantine than that of the Byzantines...
...portrait of St. John Chrysostomos shows how Nubian artists employed subtle shading not only for the sake of naturalism but also to heighten mood. A Madonna and Child dating from around 710 differs from many earlier extant treatments of the subject in that it shows Christ as a baby and not a diminutive adult...