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There are tumultuous sequences as Olivier, after a wild fandango with the ladies of the tavern, is betrayed to the police and, perched on a coffin atop a cart, rides through a festive crowd to the gallows. Scene after scene is dressed up in resplendent Technicolored sets and costumes...
...years, Quinquela tried to persuade the city government to let him repaint Buenos Aires' aluminum-drab trolleys and buses. Finally the city let him do one bus in pink, red, green and blue. He has been less successful in his campaign against black coffins, especially for artists, despite a telling argument: "Why should we who owe our very bread to color go to our graves in black boxes?" In his will. Colorist Quinquela has ordered that his own coffin be soft pink inside, with blue top, vermilion ends and green sides...
Last week her bones lay in Rio's cathedral, where she was baptized and married. At the foot of her coffin lay the rose of solid gold awarded her by Pope Leo II after she had signed the Golden Law. For three days Brazilians of all colors, free men all, passed in mournful procession. Said the rector of the University of Brazil: "Greater than the empire she lost was her title, Isabel the Redemptress...
...cases which did not respond to the lash, the pliers, the hot wires and the other accepted tools of his craft, Ulbricht fashioned a tiny cell of granite blocks in which a prisoner could neither stand nor sit. Those who lived to tell called it Ulbricht's "stone coffin...
Walter Ulbricht moved on to bigger things. With mortar made in Moscow, he built a stone coffin for a land of 18 million people and called it the German Democratic Republic...