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...Yigael Yadin, was able to fulfill a dream. Pulling strings with Premier Levi Eshkol, he got the army to assign an officer to visit a certain antiquities dealer in Bethlehem.* Under pressure, the dealer opened a hiding place under the floor of his shop and surrendered an ancient, partially worm-eaten scroll...
...material obsessions of Oriental art. Of all substances from which sculpture could be made, wood was the closest to life. But other materials were more durable. Most surviving Chinese sculpture, from the Chou dynasty (1122-222 B.C.) onwards, is in substances that do not burn, rot or get worm-eaten: stone, ceramic, bronze. Nevertheless, the tradition of wooden sculpture was immense. It cannot be exhausted in one show; but this week a delectable exhibition of 70 objects, all from Western collections, opens at Manhattan's Asia House Gallery. Entitled "Masterworks in Wood: China and Japan," it was organized...
...drive to keep ABC on top, Silverman leaves no worm unturned. He sifts through as many as 1,500 series proposals a season, reads every script and every rewrite of every script, approves every ten-second promotional spot and quarter-page newspaper ad for ABC programs...
Main Street-all two blocks of it -was like a Hollywood movie set. Plains residents weary of hearing visitors make that comparison, but the turn-of-the-century roofed sidewalks and flat-facade buildings seem oddly two-dimensional. One suspects that Carter's Worm Farm, the Peanut Museum and the half-dozen other establishments are folded away after a day's shooting. At the end of the street is the crowning bit of make-believe, the period-piece depot that does not deal with trains at all but is Carter's headquarters, festooned with peanut wreaths...
...know what a cow looks like? No, I don't care about seeing a picture of a chewed-out pancreas of the Bos taurus on page 11,547 of your Mega-weenie B&D Super-tool Pre-med cadaver-scented Dissection Manual written by (surprise) the professor of your Worm Endicrinology seminar. Do you recall that this game was billed as possibly determining the League Championship? Enough said... 2) Tell me, my dear Mr. Savit, how many "cry-baby" sore-losers have you seen throw a bash like that which almost loosed all of Hanover and sent her plummeting down...