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...Magic Flute sung in Swedish instead of German. The music is well per formed, but it is never quite as effective as Bergman's dramatic conception, which is to stage the opera like an 18th century production. Many scenes take place within the confines of a proscenium arch. Bergman even emphasizes the theatricality of the occasion by providing a few glimpses of the performers off stage: Sarastro studying Parsifal, Papageno asleep in his dressing room and almost missing his en trance cue. Curtains rise and descend, flats rumble away to be replaced by others of equally splendid artificiality...
...they fell to their knees and prayed outside the outpost, workmen hastily erected a triumphal arch on the previously unmarked boundary; atop it were Moroccan flags and huge portraits of Hassan. After moving into the Sahara in a great human flood a half-mile abreast, the marchers soon narrowed into a column eight to ten people wide and began raggedly shuffling down the single-lane asphalt road in the direction of Aaiūn, Sahara's capital. A huge paratrooper distributed paperback copies of the Koran, which the marchers waved as they chanted, "Allah akbar [God is great...
...first class, she says, "my arm hurt so badly that I yelled when someone touched it." The exercises, however, quickly overcame her problems. "After two weeks I had no pain," says Mrs. Carmody. After five months, she had mastered ballet's fifth position, in which the arms arch over the head. The accomplishment is impressive. Many would-be dancers who have not had mastectomies find the fifth position formidable...
...another tale, a white-haired bishop oversees the construction of a new cathedral. In the process an old cemetery is bulldozed and bones are unearthed and reburied. The final sacrilege is worse: the arch has no keystone-two rocks with a crack between, it seems, constitute the new style...
Momentum from that victory carried the aquamen to victories over MIT two weeks ago and arch-rival Exeter last week...