Word: sphinx
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...film - 1hr.12min. in its restored version - made in America. Directed by Sidney Olcott (who made 18 other shorter films that year) and written by its Mary Magdalene, Gene Gauntier, the picture was shot in Palestine and Egypt. One charming shot shows Mary and Joseph sitting in front of the Sphinx. Virtually every shot is a static scene, a tableau, illustrating the intertitles...
...just forces me to look at myself.” Many of Difranco’s other albums are more accesible, but for those who like seeing where her mind wanders to when she’s alone, Educated Guess may be the closest one can get to the Sphinx-like...
...dawn the staff leads guests on horseback to the pyramids and the Sphinx. Before the sun gets too high, you can play tennis on real clay courts and then spend the afternoon poolside in a courtyard framed by palms and with a pyramid view. Chateaubriand for two ($29) is served in the ornate Al Rubayatt restaurant. And a fine place to end the evening is the Mamluk Bar, which buzzes with a crowd of international characters who seem to have walked off the set of Casablanca...
...dawn the staff leads guests on horseback to the pyramids and Sphinx. Before the sun gets too high, you can play tennis on real clay courts and then spend the afternoon poolside in a courtyard framed by palms and with a pyramid view. Chateaubriand for two ($29) is served in the ornate Al Rubayatt restaurant. And a fine place to end the evening is the Mamluk Bar, which buzzes with a crowd of international characters who seem to have walked off the set of Casablanca...
...wacko’ and ‘lunatic’ are essential parts of a New York vocabulary, it’s much harder to define the elusive spirit of eccentricity that pervades Cambridge. Where New Yorkers freely flaunt their weirdness, Cantabridgians are Sphinx-like, vaguely strange, yet indecipherable...