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...villa in Gif-sur-Yvette, an alternate site, the networks erected a 16-ft. scaffold in the hope of getting a shot of Kissinger and the North Vietnamese strolling behind the garden wall. One CBS cameraman found an orphanage behind the villa and promised to support one of the children for a year (at $10 a month) in return for a vantage point on the building's roof...
HANG young Tom? There were those in Fielding's novel who smugly foresaw that amorous vagabond dangling from the highest scaffold at Tyburn gallows. Ah, but how soft women would have wept, and what praises bold men would have sung of his deeds...
...Edith Marshall is a credible nymphet as Phoebe. Danius Turek as Colonel Fairfax, the hero of the piece, performs rather well, and sings beautifully. The scenery, by Randall Darwall, is by far the most original G & S has used in years, centered around a stylized, oversized scaffold which takes most of the action...
...success is so slender. He acknowledged that organ rejection by the body was still an obstacle, but argued that "because a problem is not completely solved" is no reason to abandon a procedure. Barnard compared a patient doomed to die of heart disease with a man on the scaffold, the noose already around his neck: "Now you say to him, we won't hang you. You can stand 200 yards away and we'll get a man to fire one bullet at you. It's not much of a chance, but it's better than definitely...
After all, what distance could possibly separate two occasions whose circumstances are so similar. In each, hip producers intent on fantastic publicity hurriedly choose an inadequate location, throw up a scaffold, and invite hundreds of thousands of white middle-class kids to enjoy themselves. Michael Lang was instrumental in arranging both events, and in neither case did he worry himself with considerations such as food, water, shelter, transportation, safety, sanitary facilities, etc. Comparing the footage of Altamont in Gimme Shelter with that of Bethel in Michael Wadleigh's Woodstock , it's hard to see any difference in the crowds' composition...