Word: rosettas
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Discovered in a dusty trunk in Trieste, a hitherto unpublished manuscript by James Joyce has been treated by Viking and the academic Joyce industry as if it were a combination of a new Dead Sea Scroll, the Rosetta stone, and a papyrus by Parmenides the Eleatic. All for ten bucks a throw -a throw being exactly 16 pages...
Private Siberia. Though slowed by age, surviving members go on doing their assigned chores. In the colony's crafts shop last week, Frank Rosetta, 73, and Reg Herbison, 81, were still making picture frames and statuettes for the tourists. From her apartment in "Jerusalem," one of the House of David's less than paradisaical buildings, Ada Jeffrey was minding the colony's dairy operation as she has done for 60 years. They do not expect to wait too long for the Millennium, when they will be among God's 144,000 elect, as King...
...mostly recorded there. It celebrates the faithlessness of women (Big Joe Turner's Little Bittie Gal's Blues and Johnnie Temple's Louise Louise Blues) and, on the other hand, the rascality of men, as in My Man Jumped Salty on Me, sung by Rosetta Crawford. According to Georgia White, "The blues ain't nothin' but a good woman feelin...
...dissonant works of art. The bewildering array of influences and counterinfluences in contemporary art, from the School of Paris to the New York School, from abstract expressionism to symbolic African primitivism, from the revival of art nouveau to the revival of Dadaism, all seem to call for a Rosetta stone, a hieroglyphic key to release meaning from mystery. Dokumenta III comes close to being that Rosetta stone...
...around a picaresque little man hero, Rugantino (Nino Manfredi), who wants to be the kind of I came-I pinched-I conquered-I told male who has always appealed to the Latin imagination as the quintessence of manhood. When he starts his ego building exercises in the bedroom of Rosetta (Ornella Vanoni), that married lady's husband breaks one of Rugantino's fingers as a hint to keep hands off. Apart from palming off his mistress on an aging lecher (Aldo Fabrizi), most of Rugantino's pranks backfire. He tosses a dead cat into an aristocratic wake...