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...frenzied, festival atmosphere of the seaport city of Barcelona sets the stage. After reading a few too many legends of gallant knights and fair maidens, the eccentric old Don Quixote wanders here with his sidekick Sancho Panza. As he arrives on the scene clad in makeshift armor, he discovers his fictitious Lady Dulcinea in the personage of the lovely peasant girl Kitri and vows to rescue her from peril. Kitri is indeed in trouble, for her father Lorenzo has tried to force her to marry the rich aristocratic fop Gamache over her sweet-heart, the young barber Basilio. Pursued...
...Gelfand (who, incidentally, plays Kitri in several performances) shines as both Kitri's spirited friend and as the impish twinkling Amour in the dream sequence. Vadim Strukov plays the ridiculous Gamache with just enough clownishness to add some comic relief to the otherwise melodramatic plot. And Adriana Suarez bewitches Barcelona townspeople and audience members alike with her Flamenco elegance as the sultry Street Dancer...
Number of nations competing at the Winter and Summer Games. Question: What if they gave an Olympics and everybody came? Answer, at Albertville and Barcelona: thrills aplenty. And spills. If the figure skaters' jitters deprived them of perfection, it hyped the competition, so fiercely did they fight just to keep on their feet. Star quality counts too. Hungary's Henrietta Onodi, an elf-enchantress, took silver in gymnastics but gold in viewers' eyes...
...said the most coveted pins floating around were the Washington Post pin, reading "NBC Barcelona 92" and an ABC pin that has a microphone sticking out. "Now that's a tough one to find...
...Pins from CNN and Fox have flooded the market and gone way down in value," says Lee as he traded one of his few treasures, an NBC "Barcelona `92" beauty for one with the Washington Post logo...