Word: extravaganzas
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James Joyce once said that he expected his readers to devote their entire lives to his work. Texas-born, 29-year-old Robert Wilson seems to concur. For four performances only at Brooklyn's Academy of Music, he assembled a twelve-hour dramatic extravaganza that began at 7 p.m. and ended at 7 a.m. It was a long day's night...
This week begins what may be the 1970s' last extravaganza of American air travel: a record 8,000,000 vacationers taking off on 12,800 flights a day to spend the holidays with family and friends or at sun-warmed resorts. By Jan. 7, the splurge will end, and so will a 28-year era of soaring expansion for U.S. airlines. That day, new federal fuel allocations will start forcing flight cancellations and crew layoffs on a vastly greater scale than anything the industry has ever before experienced. Airline stockholders, oddly, could benefit by the profits of forced efficiency...
...confirmation was moving ahead, TIME has learned, Ford had to stage a behind-the-scenes skirmish with the White House to make sure that the swearing-in ceremony would be conducted in a way that he felt was proper. Nixon's staff wanted another television extravaganza in the East Room of the White House similar to the one in which the President announced his choice of Ford for the job. One top White House lieutenant admitted that this would be treating the installation of the Vice President like the appointment of a Cabinet officer. But after all, said...
What price privacy? At the moment, $80,000 and up. That is the tag on a custom-made "contemplative environment"-the latest extravaganza offered in the Neiman-Marcus department-store Christmas catalogue. "Very basically, it's enclosure, the womb," declares the environment's design chief, Richard Stonis. While it is not exactly Walden Pond, the plush private world is like a self-contained dollhouse that can be outfitted with film screens to show custom-made movies, a stand-up bar, isometric exercise equipment, a round water bed and anything else the purchaser might desire...
...example, Merrill has unaccountably confined Dido and Aeneas to a bedchamber when they should be strolling under the stars while singing Berlioz's interpolation of "In such a night as this" from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. In most other respects, the production is a visual extravaganza that at long last brings the Met fully into the 20th century. Rear slides and film vivify all the big moments, from the fall of Troy to the lovers' amorous romp in the woods. Loudspeakers bellow forth the sepulchral voices of such eminent ghosts as Hector and Priam. Wexler...