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...those incadescent moments in sports. Jubilation reigned supreme at the IAB Saturday night as Harvard's Cinderella cagers and a capacity crowd of 1500 savored every second of the Crimson's radiant 93-87 win over perennial Ivy League powerhouse Pennsylvania...
Tatiana Papamoskou (Iphigenia), Cacoyannis's twelve year old "discovery," is not the lovely golden-haired heroine of our imaginations, resembling, in fact, a rather ungainly giraffe. She does, however, have an innocence and sensitivity which are beautiful in themselves, and she is radiant in her final speeches and in the ascent to her death, all the more heroic for an occasional, involuntary tremble...
Ahead of us a fine, 14-knot southwesterly breeze ruffles a quicksilver sea. In the hazy sunlight the horizon line is a blur of radiant mist. Through it, as the ferryboat Provincetown lumbers closer to the starting line, we suddenly make out the tall, spectral shapes of Courageous and Australia, coursing around beyond the committee boat. Seeing them for the first time is surprising, like getting an unexpected glimpse of a pair of large white unicorns playing in a formal garden...
Saville's own case is not so simple. His cage is unlocked, but it is clear that even if he chooses to venture outside he will drag the thing behind him forever. Circumstances have left him maimed; a radiant older brother died of pneumonia at the age of six in the year in which Saville was born, and his parents' grief made their reactions to the new baby guarded and distant. In the life of the mind, Saville lives a surrogate boyhood. For him, as for the surrounding villagers, maturity is impossible, and hope is a kind...
...when they were married in 1630), is both the record of desire and a proclamation of God's generosity. Rubens' world was tumescent; even the eyes in his portraits, large, white, engorged with visual appetite, look like erogenous zones. All his women-those grandly callipygian wardrobes of radiant flesh, whose bodies we feebly classify as "fat"-seem, as Sir Joshua Reynolds once remarked, to have "fed upon roses." The late landscapes he painted around Chateau de Steen, his country seat out side Brussels, are an extraordinary blend of the God's-eye-view landscape of mannerist...