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...port of Eilat. The southern part of this supply line has never been really safe, however. That was demonstrated in 1971, when a small group of fedayeen armed with bazookas attacked the Israel-bound Liberian tanker Coral Sea as it passed through the ten-mile-wide strait of Bab el Mandeb (Gate of Tears). The attack prompted an audacious -and secret-Israeli countermove...
...troupe's lion dance, which evolved from the use of animal skins to work a spell on crops, and in their twirling of plates and vases on sticks, which recalls the practice of giving gifts of food to the tricksters. Anthropologists who see a migration across the Bering Strait as the origin of the American Indian point to the similarity between the feats of these acrobats with their ancient tricks and many of the similar feats performed by American Indian tribes...
...other parts of the movie, the contrast between her and Lady Day is so extreme that it is laughable. The difference between the two women is especially evident in the opening scenes where Ross portrays Holliday undergoing heroin withdrawal. The vision of the usually stylish ex-Supreme being strait-jacketed as she has hysterics is so unexpected that the audience mickers instead of sympathizing...
Eaton's epic is bristlingly serial and uncompromisingly cerebral. "It finished off eight centuries of musical technique, at least for me," says Eaton. For many listeners Heracles may simply have finished off serialism, suggesting that little more can be done to make that strait-laced and formulistic method of sticking notes together work in operatic terms. Eaton's grasp of musical technique is distinctly impressive, but his sense of theater is so undeveloped it verges on naivete. Heracles' characters discourse at enormous length but never with enough musical depth to make themselves or their arguments convincing. Unlike...
...brought up puritanically. I try to outrage that Puritanism." As a dramatist, he sometimes practices a reverse puritanism by preaching salvation through the big stud. This holy devil can redeem parched, inhibited and neurotic women, but those who do not avail themselves of his service, like shy, strait-laced Alma Winemiller in Summer and Smoke, seal their doom...