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...movies are most chilling when they call on a fear from our collective unconscious. Moviegoers can empathize with being attacked when vulnerable in a shower, being blind with a killer in the room, or swimming in shark-infested waters. But being mutilated by a formless monster living in the sand is not necessarily an ingrained fear. Nonetheless, this is Blood Beach's device, and as the movie's Detective Royko says, in typical horror movie fashion; "it will strike again and again and again until somebody does something about...
...Chicago Symphony plays chimes, cowbells and celesta (a cross between a harpsichord and a xylophone) that give the impression of mountains and lakes at Maiernegg, where Mahler composed. The first three movements suggest rest and relaxation. Two children make castles and zigzags in the sand in the Scherzo. The kids are Mahler's, according to Alma...
Fifth century B.C. masterpieces saved by sand and science...
Sculpture restoration is delicate work: a slip of a tool can destroy craftsmanship that has survived thousands of years. Restorers at the National Museum of Reggio Calabria kept the statues for three years and cleared them of superficial dirt. But to remove encrusted sand, gravel and stones, the prizes were shipped to the Archaeological Museum in Florence. Experts there spent five years employing special scalpels, tiny hammers driven by compressed air and a new, ultrasonic cleaning technique to remove the remaining detritus. What had saved the works, besides the restorers' loving labors, was the sand into which they...
...like so many silk shoelaces." In middle age she embraces a languid October day, which has a "warmth so imperious and so gentle that it seems a form of grace." About the same time she meets the man who is to become her third husband. "The sea and the sand have become my native elements," she exclaims. "So is love. Am I not an abominable creature? (I need you to assure me otherwise.)" In old age, shortly before the liberation of Paris, she watches the passage of an Allied air armada: "This morning the sky was a ceiling of airplanes...