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...machine on 'Lancelot's estate for a movie in which his wife and the movie crew proclaim the "life-enhancing" power of sex between strangers stranded together during a hurricane. While the real hurricane is approaching, Lancelot learns of his wife's infidelities and has his black servant Elgin, an MIT student, secretly videotape her liaison with the director. As the hurricane hits, Lancelot ignites the house, his wife and her cohorts in it. Subsequently he is committed to the Center for Aberrant Behavior...
...problems demand drastic cures. The Greeks' current plan is to remove all the remaining sculpture and install it in a yet unbuilt museum at the base of the Acropolis. The bare patches will be filled with fiber-glass replicas, made by the British Museum-which, thanks to Lord Elgin, already has the better part of the Parthenon's original friezes. As for the stones, the rusty iron clamps and rods will have to be extracted and replaced in what one UNESCO expert calls "a gigantic root-canal job." Finally there is the problem of mass tourism-3 million...
...specialties, but at this summer's Ravinia Festival, she has been conducting all manner of choral works-Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, and this past weekend a potpourri of Lerner and Loewe. Although Hillis is also music director of the nearby Elgin Symphony Orchestra, she might be called an unsung heroine: her principal job is to ready her chorus for other maestros. She founded her group 19 years ago at Fritz Reiner's invitation. Today the Hillis sound-vibrant, precise, enormous-has become an indispensable element of the famed Solti sound...
Sanders was one of the greatest defensive cagers ever to play the game, in a long career with the championship Boston Celtics teams. Sanders was regularly given the task of guarding the Elgin Baylors of opposing teams, and he symbolized more than any other player the kind of hardnosed, aggressive defense that was characteristic of Celtic teams...
...until the second quarter, made just one shot in four attempts and collected only three rebounds. This from a man who, in the seventh game of the 1970 NBA finals, dashed the Lakers' championship hopes by banging in 18 points and ripping down 17 rebounds against the likes of Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain...