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...these pictures, we maintain a Picture Research staff, whose dozen members mine the world each week in search of the singular picture which will best illuminate a story, whether the subject is king, clown or space capsule. The picture researchers-all of them women-have a hectic work week, since in most cases the question as to which picture will be most effective is not answerable until the story has taken shape. Thus the girls must mix the prophetic with the photographic, culling from many sources hundreds of pictures that may or may not satisfy fast-changing requirements of world...
...TERMS, which are admittedly peculiar, and in its own way, which is often exasperating, "The Empire Builders" is a fascinating drama in the Absurd tradition: which means that it mingles farce and tragedy, fantasy and reality, in a dramaturgic jumble; that its people are fools, doomed to play clown roles in the face of impending disaster; that it is myterious, mystifying, enignatic, foolish, funny--all at the same time...
There is one other: a strange creature, half monster and half man; with a clown's white face, dressed in a rubber coverall, listed in the program as a "schmurz...
...summarized in the first piece, "Confrontation, or Getting Acquainted." The music, a sweet-flowing jazz, begins by swinging the dancers to its beat. Suddenly, the dancers have taken command over the instruments--dancer Scott Kemper slumps and the sax follows with a long nasal whine, much like the clown and his circus band...
HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The clown prince of basketball, Meadowlark Lemon, leads his team against the Washington Generals in one more display of the Trotters' court comedy...