Maria's tendency to see almost psychedelic bursts of imagery when singing or listening to opera connects her with the other wounded and driven aesthetes in "The Metropolis Case," who live as if there were a second, deeper reality, rich with sights and smells, underneath our waking life.
There are probably some women in America unwilling to run off and marry a rich man sight unseen (just as there are even some guys unwilling to marry someone after seeing her in a bathing suit).
Not like in Rocky III, where he's got really rich, lost sight of his values and spends all his time promoting his sponsors, and then along comes a sort of Jenson Button figure in the form of Mr T, who's been grafting away in dirty gyms, and basically KOs him for his hubris.
His museum is renowned for its collection of works by William Sidney Mount, a Setauket native (1807 - 1868, which is now highlighted in "The Riches of Sight: William Sidney Mount and His World," on view through March.
"Fine Lines: Drawings by William Sidney Mount," through Sept. 8. ("The Riches of Sight: William Sidney Mount and His World" opens tomorrow and is on view through March 23).
'The Riches of Sight' Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages, 1200 Route 25A, Stony Brook, (631) 751-00631
Zorba the Greek is rich in the sights, sounds and smells – wild sage, mint and thyme, the orange-blossom scent worn by Madame Hortense, the citrus and almond trees – of life on Crete: the rabbits eaten, the sea that both men plunge into, the wine drunk.
Tarragona's rich array of sights are all within about 15 minutes' walk from one another.
Trump and his adopted party have (expensive) tax cuts for the rich within their sights while a plethora of progressive initiatives that predominantly affect the very poorest are now in the firing line.
The deeply unequal nature of London, where the very poor and extremely rich live within sight of one another, adds to dissatisfaction, she added.
