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Beyond heaving an occasional rhetorical rock at his fellow artists for misunderstanding him, Salvador Dali has been strangely quiet for the past six months, living in seclusion in his villa at Port Lligat, north of Barcelona. Surrealist Dali has been working, and last week he was ready to unveil what...
Unlike most Broadway plays. The Gambler tries to say something. But though Playwright Betti shows metaphysical courage, he has little dramatic force. What with rhetorical flights on wings that collapse, and philosophical depth bombs that refuse to explode, the play is at most an interesting dud. It has suggestions of...
Died. John Washington Butler, 76, onetime Tennessee state representative who authored the state's 1925 anti-evolution bill; near Lafayette, Tenn. The Butler Bill set off the explosive "monkey trial" of Biology Teacher John Scopes and furnished a stage for the rhetorical fireworks of Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan v...
Rhetorical Question. In Milwaukee, Dr. John W. Markson, psychiatrist and lecturer on "What Is Love?", was divorced by his wife, who declared that he had never shown her.
The question was purely rhetorical. Pia knew just what to do. She went to the desk where her husband had checked his pistol. Then she faced Sacchi, took aim and fired. "It sounded just like the popping of another cork," remembers one of the bystanders. A moment later, Pia aimed...