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Frozen Instant. To evoke Pasternak's poetic imagery, Lean led a camera unit almost to the Arctic Circle, hired Lapland nomads to portray Siberian refugees. To record the long train trip from Moscow to the Urals that is the central odyssey of the novel, Lean went into below-zero temperatures in the northern Finnish lumber town of Joensuu, photographed the "refugees" trekking across Lake Pyhaselka, over which, during the 1940 Russian invasion of Finland, the Soviets had actually laid a winter railway...
...that looks at first glance like the Stuart family tree, minus the bar sinister. Before running off the page, it traces Lyndon's lineage back to his paternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Sukey Johnson, whose date and place of birth are apparently unrecorded. Dozens of family photographs portray L.B.J.'s sturdy forebears, from Father Sam, looking astonishingly like L.B.J. on a bad day, to Maternal Great-Grandfather George Washington Baines Sr., a fire-breathing Baptist preacher who was president of Baylor University and the deadliest shot in the county. His favorite hymn, Rebekah attests, was Alas...
...central question which the Operation Exodus incident raises is, why did Eisenstadt introduce his resolution when he did? While he and Mrs. Hicks portray the ban on busing as a defense of the neighborhood school, over 1000 students had been bused last year, without raising a public objection from anyone on the School Committee. If Eisenstadt had not put the busing plan to a vote, it probably would not have become a partisan issue...
...Metropolitan Opera Auditions, made his Met debut in Cosi Fan Tutte as a last-minute substitute for an ailing tenor, and was promptly acclaimed the find of the season. In the years since, he has sung leading roles in Madame Butterfly, Simon Boccanegra and La Traviata, next season will portray Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. "Fifteen years ago," says Shirley, "I probably wouldn't have been accepted by the Met. Ten years ago, I couldn't sing my favorite roles. Times are changing...
...last week the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the order that Mother Cabrini founded, showed it was just as adept at deflating phony publicity. "We feel very strongly," wrote Mother Ursula, president of Cabrini College, Radnor, Pa., "that Miss Loren is the worst possible choice to portray a holy woman." In the first place, there were "the bigamy charges." And secondly, her protest continued, "Sophia doesn't have the physique. Mother Cabrini was a small, slender woman. Miss Loren," Mother Ursula observed, "is bulky...