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...scene described by Pliny the Younger occurred on an August afternoon in 79 A.D. Of the more than 20,000 inhabitants in the city of Pompeii, several hundred died that day in their homes and in the streets. The rest fled toward...
Last week a cast of the body of one who fled too late was being examined by Italian archaeologists at its resting place outside the Southern Gate of the city. It was the first figure of an eruption victim uncovered outside Pompeii's walls...
...three luxury hotels, two race tracks, six nightclubs, a pair of golf courses, 24 tennis courts, a yacht basin, theater, music hall, polo field, clay-pigeon shoot and one of Europe's busiest and most sumptuous casinos. Says a French social commentator: "Deauville is to Paris what Pompeii was to Rome...
...Adventure traveled back in time to a city slain by nature rather than by man. In re-creating the terrifying last days of Pompeii, the show had the help of an excellent script-the contemporary letters of Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus-and dramatic excerpts from a pair of vintage Italian films. Sins of Pompeii and Fabiola. In somber contrast to the deluge of volcanic fire and dust that buried the city and its inhabitants, the camera strolled down the empty, cobbled streets of present-day Pompeii and glanced up at the peaceful, picturesque cone of Vesuvius...
William Baziotes' Pompeii is also a sophisticated vision rather than an outpouring of feeling: he saw something like it in his mind's eye. Rumpled, testy Mark Rothko produces pictures as smooth and calm as a cup of cambric tea. His Orange Over Yellow might make a handsome background for something, but this is not what he intended, any more than the makers of the medieval tapestries meant merely to adorn palaces. It seems highly doubtful that such art as Rothko's will some day seem as meaningful as the tapestries, yet it is possible. Such paintings...