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Photographers in the House? But clearly the sensation of the festival was the dance mercifully called Untitled. To the taped sound of rolling stones, the reading of passages from Da Vinci's Notebooks, an aria from Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, and the choreographer's taped comments (sample: "If you are taking photographs now, let us know later"), Yvonne Rainer, 30, and Robert Morris, 34, in a tight embrace, moved across stage in slow motion for eight minutes-stark naked. "I am a sculptor and like nude bodies," explains Dance Choreographer Morris. The audience took it all with...
...same time, the U.S. assembled a force of more than 120 U.S. Super Sabres, Thunderchiefs and B57 Canberra bombers from Bienhoa and Da nang in South Viet Nam, as well as bases in Thailand and possibly the Philippines. Some 30 of the planes peeled off and headed for Quangkhe, while the main force converged on Xombang (appropriately pronounced zom-bang), a jungle staging area and supply dump for infiltrators, ten miles north of the South Viet Nam frontier. More than 120 tons of bombs rained down on Xombang, and U.S. officers later reported "severe damage." All told, one South Vietnamese...
...right: in addition to the new museum, Dennis' Historic Figures Inc. has set up five smaller wax museums at Gettysburg, Harpers Ferry, Niagara Falls, Denver, and Gatlinburg, Tenn. In July a sixth will open near Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, for which a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is being constructed as part of a series of "great scenes from world history...
...Portuguese have controlled Mozambique since Vasco da Gama landed there on his way to India in 1498, but they have never really successfully colonized it. Although the Portuquese boast of their five centuries of "non-racial, Christian, civilizing mission," less than one percent of Mozambique's seven million African inhabitants are literate and less than five percent can speak Portuguese...
...episode that he underscores with the Gloria-in-excess of Handel's Messiah. Handel nonetheless seems an improvement over the sepulchral strains of Composer Alfred Newman's background meditations. The Last Supper, prior to the Crucifixion and Resurrection at Jerusalem, ludicrously borrows its table setting from Leonardo da Vinci in order not to disturb the public mind with a single fresh conception...