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...Catlett Marshall, who had commanded all of America's military forces during the war, bowed, accepted his doctor of laws degree and sat down again. In his pocket, ticking off the day like a hidden bomb, was a speech whose content would shape a new world era and dwarf by its magnitude all the fame that Marshall had so far won. That afternoon, when his turn came to make a "few remarks" during the traditional alumni ceremonies in front of Memorial Church, Marshall quietly took out his speech and read it to his audience. Thus was born the Marshall...
Sleeping Beauty. Russlan, based on a Pushkin poem, begins in the palace of the Prince of Kiev, where the wedding of the knight Russlan and the princess Ludmilla is about to be celebrated. In a pouf of smoke, Ludmilla is abducted by the wicked dwarf Tchernomor. The rest of the opera concerns Russlan's travails in trying to find her ahead of two other suitors; the prince has promised Ludmilla to the first man who can rescue her. A kind of Russian Siegfried, Russlan receives a magic sword from that singing head but in the end requires a magic...
...with mysterious goings on at a space station, staffed originally by a crew of 85, which has been drastically depleted under sinister circumstances. By the time a psychologist named Kelvin (Donatis Banionis) comes aboard, the station is populated by two disturbed scientists and a host of phantoms, including a dwarf and a nubile young girl in a blue nightie...
Gibrayan took a pistol and put himself out of his misery, though, and he wasn't the type. And why does Sartorius, one of the two remaining scientists, have a dwarf running out of his room? Why the ball?, and why the young girl who mysteriously prowls the space lab in a blue negligee? "Is she real?," Kelvin asks Snauf, the last astronaut. "Is she human?" Snauf only laughs, wildly, wickedly. A panic starts to grab Kelvin, like a pounding hangover on a clammy summer morning. No more Mr. Imperterbable. On a tape made just before his suicide, Gibaryan tells...
...monogrammed pajamas? Some of these points may be straightened out in an extra 40 minute section cut out of this version. But if the "guests" originate in the men's subconscious reconstruction of their past, I, for one, would like to know what Sartorius had going with that dwarf...