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Time to Flee. To see such sights today in Herculaneum, writes Joseph Deiss, an amateur archaeologist and vice-director of the American Academy in Rome, is to "walk 2,000 years into the past." The world is more familiar with what happened to neighboring Pompeii on the same day that Herculaneum died; erupting on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius buried Pompeii in a sudden fiery rain of stone and ash, entombing nearly one-tenth of its 20,000 citizens and inflicting terrible damage on the city. Herculaneum, however, was more fortunate. Granted time by the wind, which blew west toward...
...particolored from carefully ladled-on corrosive dyes; his wooden statuary is daubed with earthy tints, oil paints clinging to the surfaces as in flaking frescoes. Even his lush-thighed Pomonas, named for the ancient Italian goddess of fruit trees, seem like the petrified victims of the last days of Pompeii. But as currently displayed in Rome's 500-year-old Palazzo Venezia, at one time the residence of the ambassador of the proud Venetian Republic, the hefty nudes look like steaming courtesans in the Baths of Caracalla...
...limousines ordered for the great occasion. And Des Pins, a once tranquil seaside resort where the Algerian government insisted to the bitter end that the second Afro-Asian Conference would take place this week on schedule, looked like a manic blend of Hellzapoppin and The Last Days of Pompeii...
...vanishing point. Miami Beach's famed hotels-there are 368 in all-are fantastically cantilevered, balconied and pictured-windowed confections in concrete. Inside them there is eating and sleeping, eating and talking, and eating and dancing in places with names like the Boom-Boom Room and the Cafe Pompeii. Outside there is eating and tanning around the pool on chaise longues all facing the same way. Rarely does anyone venture onto the beach...
METROPOLITAN-Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. Air-conditioning installation has put most of the Met's special events on ice, but the Cubiculum, a splendidly decorated little bedroom first dug up near Pompeii in 1900, has been unearthed again after a year in restoration. A new ceiling and a new molding copied from the original have been added...