Word: saints
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...patron saint, the Blessed Martyr Leibowitz (canonized in the course of the novel), was an electronics engineer strangled and roasted alive by the mob in the anti-scientist massacres following the Flame Deluge. Among the memorabilia which the monastery preserves are scraps of books and diagrams that gradually result in the rediscovery of electricity and other appurtenances of the "Golden Age'' of the 20th century. Proud as Jove, the blind earthlings hurl the megatons all over again. At novel's end, a picked band of the monks, bravely singing old space chanteys, boards a "starship" for outer...
...portrait. The giant sea urchin in the foreground represents "le real shape of le earth as discovered by le American Satellite Explorer Two" (actually, Vanguard Beta). In his dream, Dali's young Columbus meets not Indians but symbols of past and future. He is greeted by a transparent Saint Narcissus, whose body is formed partly of flies. Why? Easy, says Dali: "Le French cavalry que attacked Gerona in 1808 was defeated by many, many flies from zee grave of Narcissus." Dali maintains that Columbus was born in Gerona...
...pointillists." Hidden among the dots and stripes on the right side is a head-down Crucifixion and its reflection through the banners of the Spanish provinces. A Paradisial egg of light at the top of the canvas contains, from the bottom up, Ferdinand and Isabella receiving Columbus, Saint Salvador, and the Virgin with the body of Christ. The tall banner on the left bears an exact and brilliant portrait of Dali's wife Gala...
North by Northwest. Hitchcock at his best, with Gary Grant and Eva Marie Saint dodging Communist spies in a shoot-'em-up that ricochets from Madison Avenue to Mount Rushmore...
North by Northwest. Hitchcock at his best, with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint dodging Communist spies in a shoot-'em-up that ricochets from Madison Avenue to Mount Rushmore...