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...legend and history, the com passion and private sentiment, including a parting volley for the victims of the Warsaw ghetto. It does not quite work. Somewhere, not too long after the first chapter, Andre Schwarz-Bart for got that a fable must be a unicorn, not a zebra...
...light are only fully realized for their clarity and brightness in an original print like that of the MFA show; the book's print attempt cannot compare, although on the whole the quality of reproduction for this edition excels. The perch railing casts a row of dark stripes, a zebra-like image doubled by refraction onto a rounded object that protrudes from the righthand side of the picture. The distinctness of these evenly-spaced bars of dark and light anticipates the immaculate surface of hard-edge pointing in the 50s and 60s. His later "Basque Façade" (France...
This weekend's debacle at Ice Station Zebra (Ithaca, N.Y.) prevented the team from returning to Cambridge until late Monday, by which time the meet had begun. "The first diving event started when we were on the subway," said Skip Kenney, assistant coach...
...stars twinkled once again over the dance floor, and haute coutured fundaments warmed the zebra-striped banquettes as Manhattan's El Morocco reopened its doors to the oglers and the ogled. There were plenty of oldtime international set pieces-Paulette Goddard flashing rubies and diamonds, Hope Hampton flashing silver sequins, Aristotle Onassis flashing Jacqueline. But there were signs, too, that the times they are achanging. A disk jockey has replaced the orchestra. Dinner is a prix fixe $8.50-less than the average tip in the Elmo...
...previous efforts composed simultaneously with typewriter and viewfinder include Ice Station Zebra, The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare. This time the scenario actually concerns the making of a movie. A film company presided over by an evil Germanic butterball named Otto Gerran embarks on a refitted trawler to shoot on location at Bear Island in the Arctic Circle. Unlike, say, Ian Fleming, who was content with swift caricatures or comic-book effects, MacLean casts a few interesting human characters. There is old Captain Imrie, for example, who drinks like John Barrymore and thinks like Samuel Eliot Morison...