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Within its sphere, though, this picture benefits from imaginative direction and photography. The scenes are forceful, realistic, and historically accurate, but in contrast. Marlon Brando's characterization of Zapata carries all the life, fire and determination of a snowman...
According to Nature. Cézanne liked to say that what he saw in nature was "the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone," though what he painted was hardly so chill or so simple. The cubists took their cue from his words, called him a father of modern art. Cézanne would not have appreciated the intended compliment; theories bored him, and his pictures were translations of what he saw, not demonstrations of what he thought...
Waves Around the World. If the earth were a smooth sphere, the circumpolar wind might flow in a neat circle following the parallels of latitude. But the earth is ridged with mountains and mottled with alternate patches of land and ocean. These blemishes scallop the great wind into snakelike, horizontal waves whose southern lobes sometimes reach the tropics. On the western sides of the waves the wind aloft blows toward the southeast, carrying with it masses of cold northern air. On the eastern sides the wind blows toward the northeast, carrying tropical air into the temperate zone. When two such...
...Bertrand Arthur William Russell juggles many kinds of ideas, some sound, and some mere sound. Sifting them apart has kept his critics in a dither for half a century, and may furrow posterity's brow even longer. The Socialist earl, now 79, has taken all knowledge for his sphere and kicked it around like a soccer ball...
...first floor balcony of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, six mannequins pose in costumes one might expect to see either at the Mardi Gras or on the Tom Corbett Space Cadet television program. One of the dummies sports a mask composed of a Chinese red semi-sphere and what looks like one half of a stone arrowhead with a black eye hole in the center. One of his arms is a lance, surrounded by a bell-like guard. The other arm, wearing skin-tight silk encased in a gourd shaped sheath, holds a golden club. The remaining five costumes, all designed...