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...human suffering, last week witnessed a very different sort of scene. From the divided city's Western sector, they came on foot by the thousands-old people struggling with sacks full of presents, small children carrying freshly cut roses or tulips, young mothers pushing prams, men lugging thick suitcases. Alternately smiling and weeping for joy, the visitors trudged past the tank traps, the death strip, the watchtowers. Finally, after clearing the last checkpoint, they rushed to meet friends and relatives whose faces some of them had almost forgotten. "Meine Liebe!" cried one old lady as she embraced an East...
...opening Magnificat by John Taverner was pure and on pitch--a welcome relief from the shakiness common to amateur groups' lead pieces at a concert. The chant that began the Magnificat was perfect simplicity and contrasted strongly with the thick polyphonic texture that followed. Of the eleven sections, the Gloria was superb. One huge melisma on the second syllable of principio seemed to suspend all motion and thought...
...ballot. Muskie and Eugene McCarthy. Muskie is likely to win in the non-binding Presidential Preference Primary, but McCarthy's backers are hoping to add anti-Muskie votes to Clean Gene's base of support. Perhaps a strong McCarthy showing in Illinois will thrust him back into the thick of things, but probably...
...relief, then, to enter one of the sound stages, to slide open a heavy iron door and step into cool darkness. The gloom is thick, palpable, and you are aware of vast spaces above you. Gradually, as you become accustomed to the artificial dusk, it takes form. Cables as thick as your arm snake over the floor and up the walls, black and viny. High up, just below a barely discernible ceiling, banks of unused lights cluster like hard dark fruits. And you are aware that this shadowy jungle is alive; figures appear and disappear, slipping swiftly through the darkness...
...more truthful than the occasional bustling sound stage you may stumble into. Most of the sound stages lie as empty as the roads, but more silent still--and their darkness is total. The studios--once collectively turning out 500 pictures a year, now making maybe 150--sprawl silently, thick with the dust of their roads, under the whitish sky of Los Angeles...