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Florence's version turned out to be more of a musical epic than a traditional opera, but the music was Prokofiev's most melodious and the performance first class. The first act, most of it set in the gardens and salons of Moscow's early 19th century aristocracy, took care of "peace." The music of this act was light and tuneful, almost in the style of French or Italian chamber music. The other two acts turned warlike, and their music was richly Russian. At the end of Act II, a powerful chorus of defiance was chanted while...
...Paramount, for the benefit of 80-year-old Adolph Zukor, an antique stereo-camera was hauled up from the basement. Out the window went twelve days of production on Sangaree, a costume epic starring Fernando Lamas, and the whole thing was shot again in 3-D, with Technicolor. "Whaddya mean they won't wear glasses?" demanded Producer Bill Thomas. "They'll wear toilet seats around their necks if you give 'em what they want...
...Another epic story [that] someday must be told," says Marshall, is the vain and valiant struggle put up by units of the X Corps and the First Marine Division manning the eastern sector of the U.S. front...
Among the other tid-bits of hilarity is "Fight Fircely, Harvard," an epic fight song that ranks with the equally spirited "Yo Ho." Also included in the collection is "Lobschevsky," with the guaranteed receipt for academic success: "Plagerizel Only be sure, please, to call it research...
...final sequences take on epic proportions as the weapons carrier on which Gandhi's body lies is slowly pulled for five hours by men with ropes through a surging crowd in the streets of New Delhi, while planes shower his bier with rose petals. Then, after his body has been burned on a funeral pyre of bricks and sandalwood sticks, the ashes are scattered on the sacred waters where the Jumna and Ganges meet. One brief, vivid shot shows most of the material possessions that the frail little man in the white loincloth left behind him: sandals and spectacles...