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...Army drum and bugle corps blared an ear-splitting fanfare, the Navy Band came in on cue, and an Army detachment fired a 21-gun salute. Iran's Shahanshah (King of Kings), His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, was properly impressed by the pomp, but his visit to Washington last week was no pleasure trip. At the very first opportunity he and his old friend Lyndon Johnson got down to some blunt business...
...wolfed a hamburger lunch. Not that the dress was worth protecting; it was just another tent. After finishing, she wiped the napkin across her mouth. No need to freshen her lipstick; she wore no makeup. Then she strode out in her beat-up pumps-and as if on cue, heads turned, cars slowed, and a sailor rushed up at flank speed. "You're in the movies, aren't you?" he asked. "But I can't remember your name." Said she: "Who, me? You must be kidding...
...other hand, she is widely lauded as a "totally original actress" and "complete professional." Most actors need ammonia capsules to weep even once; Sandy must hold the Olympic record for instantly crying on cue-ten times in one hour during the shooting of Virginia Woolf. Mark Rydell, director of her recently completed film, The Fox, calls her an "emotionally fluid actress" capable of doing anything...
...press agents were busy turning sporadic yells into the firm, rythmic roar you hear in propaganda films. Wherever there was a television camera, the press agents urged the girls to "scream now" and paid the lucky ones 25 dollars to faint on cue. When the Beatles finally arrived at the Plaza, the crowd charged and nearly killed the chauffeur and two doormen. The PR men sighed with relief. Through a mixture of circus press-agentry and true love, the Beatles were already, on their first day in America, becoming more popular than Jesus...
Tharon Musser has provided lovely lambent lighting, though its technical execution is distractingly jerky. At one point, taking a cue from Titania's words--"The moon methinks looks with a wat'ry eye;/ And when she weeps, weeps every little flower"--she has all the pendent vegetation come alive with tiny lachrymal lights, while the fairies march out carrying hand torches. A beautiful way to end the show's first half...