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...sentries stood at attention, as those who could reach the remote outpost paid their last respects. Among them was the man Hammarskjold had flown to Ndola to see: Katanga's stubborn President Moise Tshombe, whose troops were battling U.N. forces less than 100 miles away. Dressed in a grey suit and somber tie, Tshombe walked in briskly, placed a wreath of white lilies on the coffin, stood motionless for a full minute, bowed and walked out. "I knew him as a man with whom I could talk freely," he said earlier. "C'est triste pour...
...crew moved into one of these noisome spots, the Frio Cave in southern Texas. While rabid bats flew overhead spraying them with urine, they slogged into the cave carrying wire-mesh cages containing dogs, domestic cats, raccoons, ringtail cats (a raccoon-like animal of the Southwest), coyotes, grey foxes and one striped skunk. The animals were fed and tended carefully for one week, then removed and isolated. One fox, two coyotes and one ringtail cat died of rabies...
...those vicious family fights that occupy whole scenes of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. The difference is that Sophocles' dialogue reveals destiny as well as dissension; the troubles of the House of Atreus belong to the universal family of man. Before the muted grey stylized panels, columns and stairs of the palace facade, the drama of man's willful pride goes on unmuted. But the play's hypnotic center is Aspassia Papathanassiou as she seethes with mother hate and sways before high winds of woe. As primordially pagan as a bolt of lightning...
...Others are wide, tree-shaded asphalt boulevards, flanked with government buildings, theaters, stores and hotels. Irkutsk's citizens are hustled to work in jammed buses in the mornings, and when the day's labor is finished, hurry home again to the cramped wooden huts or the crowded grey-and-yellow apartment blocks, exactly like those in Minsk and Pinsk and Omsk...
Last week the Kirov led with its ace, Tchaikovsky's fluid, graceful Swan Lake. If the costumes were a trifle tacky, Simon Virsaladze's sets were superb: subtle, misty shadings of grey, blue and green bathed in a ghostly aquamarine light to evoke the haunting, elusive beauty of the lake and its enchanted bird-women. But it was the dancing that the audience came to see, and the dancing overshadowed everything else. Before the performance was well under way, a lithe, vivacious ballerina named Alia Sizova stopped the show with her lyrical dancing in the pas de trois...