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...hospital gates appeared a crudely lettered cardboard communiqu...
...them was Nefalah Farour, 38, who had fled the P.L.O.-dominated port of Tyre on the first day of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Accompanied by five of her seven children, she had walked through the mountains to the dubious safety of Beirut. Exhausted, she squatted on a flattened cardboard box and fretted over the fate of the two youngsters she had been obliged to leave behind in her flight from the Israeli shelling. The two children had been playing at a neighbor's house when the family ran. Had they survived? The answer remained buried in the rubble...
...rather Rocky Balboa and Sylvester Stallone. The beginning of the film chronicles Rocky's rising fame: he appears on telethons, advertisements, and magazine covers. Stallone even uses his old Newsweek cover, doctored only slightly for this sequence. And around Rocky's training ring, promoters have installed life-sized cardboard figures of Balboa, exactly like those promoters of this film have placed in the lobbies of movie theaters. The boundaries between make-believe and reality seem muddled. In Rockey and Rocky II, Stallone presented Balbon as an appealing and charming character; in Rocky III he presents himself as both Stallone...
Heading a top international cast, Italian Baritone Renato Bruson was totally in harmony with the conductor. His Sir John was not the lecherous, cardboard heavyweight of operatic cliche but a man of complex emotions-however inappropriately addressed to two married ladies of Windsor After a somewhat tentative start, Bruson's sharply focused voice proved equal to Verdi's demands, from the boisterous "L'onore" monologue at the end of the first scene to the sprightly C major fugue that closes the work...
WHEN THE AUDIENCE files into the Old Library, the set for The Cradle Will Rock consists of only one object--an awkward cardboard-like streetlamp. The lights dim to blackness, a jarring piano theme begins, and quite suddenly the streetlamp switches on, illuminating a prostitute leaning against it. It is the first of many delicate and imaginative effects in a double-bill evening that provides more food for thought than most troupes could gracefully handle...