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...United Nations he may sometimes seem a dogmatic hardliner. It turns out that Soviet Ambassador Niko lai Fedorenlco, 54, is also reasonably good with the one-liners. He showed up on TV's Merv Griffin show, brandish ing a thick Havana cigar, which made him look as if he'd learned his Marx from Groucho. As he mentioned Channel 5, the station that broadcasts the show in New York, he grinned: "My wife likes Channel 5 (applause) . . . Chanel 5 from Paris, you know [laughter...
...rehearsal stage, she movingly conveyed everything from lyrical calm to the hopeless despair which reduced her by the end to shouting "Go away!" at the entire theatre. Berio's score creating exactly the right atmosphere of darkness, supporting Miss Mandac's more lyrical lines with subdued moans and becoming thick and black in combination with the choruses' threatening noises. Berio's attempt to involve the audience in the action by extending it into the house was as nearly successful as such attempts can be, adding to the effect of Passaggio as a powerful piece of "total theatre...
...with a quiet, reflective passage by the piano, signifying, says Carter, "the alienation of the individual from the misguided mass." The score rumbled and shook and shouted in constantly shifting tempos and atonalities and astonishingly original-and difficult -rhythms. Most striking was Carter's technique of "swamping"-building thick, eerie clouds of sound by simultaneously intertwining dozens of musical strands...
...determined search for the new moon had actually been hindered by the spectacular rings, which reflect sunlight brilliantly, obscuring other objects in the vicinity of the planet. But though the rings are wide, they are also incredibly thin-perhaps even less than a foot thick. Thus every 14 years or so, when the earth passes through Saturn's equatorial plane and astronomers can get an edge-on view of the rings, their glow practically disappears. In place of their familiar, disklike shape, the rings appear as a faint, straight line, much like the side view of a phonograph record...
First, Vinson lies 400 miles due east of remote Byrd Station, and only 600 miles from the South Pole. Second, Antarctica is racked by fierce (up to 90 m.p.h.) gales and covered with ice up to 14,000 ft. thick; the temperature, even in the middle of summer, can drop to -40°. Add to that the fact that no man had ever before set foot on the slopes of Vinson-and the laconic announcement from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound had to qualify as a masterpiece of understatement: "A U.S. climbing party planted the flags of twelve...