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...paints himself as a phosphorescent dandy with a giant hat, and his father as a massive totem against the overheated landscape of Cadaques. This, one realizes, is the first painting by Dali that actually means something, that opens the Pandora's box of obsession of his later, Surrealist work. What it means is parricide. He sees his father as a dark colossus, a parody of the figures of patriarchy that bulked so large in Catalan folklore. Much of his work thereafter would be devoted to dragging the paternal giant from his pedestal...
While myths associated with Widener, Memorial Hall and the Union run rampant, very few of us are aware that the deepest darkest, most fearsome secrets here at Harvard lurk in--The Quad. In order to penetrate the compendium of riddles, the pandora's box of mystery, the den of debauchery we know and love to be the Quad, I decide to investigate one of the truly remarkable institutions here at Harvard...
...Starring Katharine Hepburn: "Sylvia Scarlett" at 4:05 and 7:35 and "Christopher Strong" at 2:30, 6 and 9:25 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14. Film Noir: "Lady from Shanghai" at 4 and 7:55 and "Gilda" at 5:45 and 9:35 Vamps and Other Lesbians: "Pandora's Box" at 4 and 7:30 p.m., "A Fool There Was" at 6 p.m. and "It" at 9:30 p.m. From Hong Kong: The Films of Tsui Hark: "Once Upon a Time in China...
...trial will also open a Pandora's box of allegations by the former Atlanta branch manager of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and his attorney Bobby Lee Cook. They say that senior B.N.L. officials in Rome not only approved the loans to Iraq but that the U.S. and Italian governments were aware of the transactions. As proof, Drogoul and Cook introduced what they claim is an internal bank document written in Italian and slipped under Cook's hotel room door last week. The document is an executive summary of meetings between bank executives, Italian government officials and representatives...
...Kravchuk's government, which depends on support from Ukrainian nationalists in parliament, has flatly defined the Crimean problem as "an internal affair" that does not concern foreign states. "There will never be negotiations," says Vladimir Kryzhanovsky, Ukraine's ambassador to Moscow. To negotiate, he argues, would open a Pandora's box by calling into question all the myriad treaties and border determinations made during 74 years of Soviet rule. "If we negate everything that was done under Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev, then we must negate all existing borders," he says. "And that could only lead to a new world...