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...work of armies. Ambiguity has an ancient history in the West, but the Middle East has its special genius for mirage. There, the dreariest, basest impulses go dressed up in poetry. Aggressive greed may swagger around as jihad. "Arab dignity and honor" shine in the mind with a radiant life of their own, forever beleaguered and violated and crying for revenge -- visions really, not things to be struggled toward, to be earned...
...Barrymore gift was an animal magnetism that could project to the second balcony; the Barrymore curse was a belief that nothing in life could approach the grand scale of the theater. In her youth, Ethel was so radiant that Winston Churchill begged her to marry him. "I was so in love with her!" he later confessed. "And she wouldn't pay any attention...
...would find this stability by moving permanently to Nice, but it was not available in Paris. Following ) the sun, going south to a domain of purer light and color, had been his obsession since his first trips to Provence in his Fauvist years. In North Africa it produced radiant motifs: the green garden, the white breastlike curves of marabout domes, the angled cuts of shadow in street and alley, the blue haze of light behind ogival arches...
...years ago, at the Akhnaten premiere, half the audience booed vociferously. This time all three operas were greeted with prolonged ovations. The spectators were cheering Glass, Freyer and the performers, of course, particularly Paul Esswood's radiant Akhnaten and Leo Goeke's heroic Gandhi. But even more, they were cheering the triumph of a style that, only a few years ago, was bitterly controversial. And perhaps bidding it goodbye as well...
...viewers to its season finale. ABC announced that the show would return in the fall. And to complete the hat trick, Lynch copped the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for Wild at Heart, the writer-director's latest affront to the cinematic status quo. Flanked by his radiant companion Isabella Rossellini, awash in the cheers and scattered outraged hoots that will forever follow his film, Lynch smiled innocently and declared, "It's a true dream come true...