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...beautiful," said Miranda. She drove, Skelton constantly looking back to see how it was trailing; the bow loomed in the rear window. "Does it mean...
...updated maps of the Arab-Israel war in this week's World section, Donovan worked from files sent to him by TIME correspondents, who could be no more precise about the location of the front lines than were the Arab and Israeli briefing officers in rear areas. "A map has to be continuously nourished until it becomes a useful tool," he explains, "and, like a written story, revised until it makes sense...
...they should be strolling under the stars while singing Berlioz's interpolation of "In such a night as this" from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. In most other respects, the production is a visual extravaganza that at long last brings the Met fully into the 20th century. Rear slides and film vivify all the big moments, from the fall of Troy to the lovers' amorous romp in the woods. Loudspeakers bellow forth the sepulchral voices of such eminent ghosts as Hector and Priam. Wexler's sets (primitive masonry at Troy, fish nets and vessels at Carthage...
...Dayan during our second trip of the week to Sinai. On the first visit, it was already clear that the Israeli army had recovered from its initial setback. There was a constant movement of men and equipment along the vast network of roads crisscrossing the central Sinai region. Israeli rear bases were jammed with trucks, tires, earth-moving equipment, ammunition and tank vans. Soldiers were bivouacked along the road, with masses of armored cars, artillery, antiaircraft guns and tanks near by. The Israeli logistics system was obviously working well. The soldiers were eating fresh meat, fruit and vegetables. They even...
...Mies, and the Houston museum is no letdown; every junction is the vehicle of his meticulousness, proclaiming that a millimeter's change in the thickness of a mullion flange would read as a loss. The ground-floor film and lecture theater, with its black seats and dark teak rear wall, is a jewel of sober, lucid design. But on the large scale, all this is lost. Apart from the Houston Astrodome, one could barely imagine a less sympathetic space for showing art than Mies' vast curving hall, longer than a football field and 22 ft. high...