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Rome's Quirinal Palace, Florentines broke through police lines three times to see her, Communist workers in Milan applauded her. But in Milan's La Scala opera house, things went to the other extreme. There the Queen accepted a bouquet from young dancers, joined Prince Philip and eight companions in the majestic isolation of the royal box, surrounded by 3,230 empty seats, as 200 singers and musicians staged a special, twelve-minute performance of the second-act finale of Lucia di Lammermoor...
...falling, and her hands are pressed together as in prayer. Behind her a house looms at the same tentative angle, and a tiny goat trots on her head. Almost 40 years later, The Eiffel Tower Lovers are seated on the back of a large fowl that holds a bouquet of flowers as it approaches the tower with a blazing red sun in the background. The man is dressed, the girl naked. Between these two pictures are evidences of a fantastic and fascinating artistic vision not always easy to define but always a joy to divine...
...behind paneled windows or rows of shelves or actual prison bars, and the buildings seem to hover over and enclose them. In one of the most brilliant scenes, when Queen Victoria is confronted by hordes of screaming beggars, she stares, horrified and uncomprehendingly at them, and then raises her bouquet of roses to her face to cut off the sight of them...
...there was an outburst of cheering and applause, almost drowning out a well-dressed woman's shout to her husband: "He's so handsome!" Youngsters set up a "We Want Lodge!" chant, and the grownups joined in. Somebody handed the candidate's smiling wife a massive bouquet of four dozen roses, and as the cheers continued Henry Cabot Lodge, the G.O.P.'s choice for vice president, raised his arms to form a V. "This was Nixon territory," Illinois' Congresswoman Marguerite Stitt Church boomed into the microphone. "Now it's also Lodge territory...
...world rec ord of 8,014 points. In one of the memorable duels in sports history. Johnson defeated Kuznetsov 8,302 v. 7,897 to regain the world record-and find himself a hero to the Russians. Johnson was kissed on the cheek by Kuznetsov, a bouquet of flowers was pressed into his huge hand, and a band of jubilant Russians later tossed him into the air in triumph. "I'd gone over there thinking we'd be abused one way or the other," says Johnson. "But they cheered the performance, not the man or the nationality...